An Annual Comeback

Between 2016 and 2020, Rubis Mécénat collaborated with the Beaux-Arts de Paris on a call for projects aimed at the school’s students, to create a contemporary crib for the Saint-Eustache church.

The 2019 winners, Enzo Certa and Cassandra Rain, conceived the installation ‘An Annual Comeback’, exhibited at the church from December 2019 to January 2020.

The installation revisits the classic codes of Nativity scenes with a contemporary twist. The two artists, painters and draughtsmen, have chosen to reveal both the sacred dimension and the festive, joyful nature of the birth, reviving this omnipresent subject in the history of art. The scene, drawn on cut-out wooden panels, creates a dialogue with the architecture and paintings of the church, thanks to the exuberance of the colours and the arrangement of the volumes in the space.