Xmas Hood
Textile object, performance, 2018-2020

Santa Klan or K K Klaus or Santa Claus Is a Stinker or ...? Victim or executioner ...?
The newest creation of Maison Gautel. Handmade, produced in France !

Reinterpreted Santa Claus hat, created for the exhibition L’Étrange Noël à la Fabrique, la Petite Fabrique d’Art, Paris, December 2018. During the exhibition, the basement was transformed into a “sweatshop”. The hood has been shown again at the art space Immanence, Paris, in the exhibition Christmas Project.

In Winter 2020 during the coronavirus crisis, the Xmas Hood is still up to date.

Photos by Sarra Ben Gara, Alain Bernardini, Christine Coënon, JG, Jean-Michel Jagot, Benoît Manent, Virginia Mastrogiannaki, Jeanne Susplugas, Anne-Marie Toffolo and in particular Jason Karaïndros.
Thanks to Mathias Gautel and Laure Tixier for the different fitting titles!


  • The Magic of Christmas
    The Xmas Hood with Sisyphus N° 6/∞, December 2022, photo Anne-Marie Toffolo
  • Photo: Jean-Michel Jagot, 2023

Voir aussi
#Objects, assemblages #Performances #Icons #Paradise Lost #Actions #Who’s Who ? #Politics #Beneath the Surface #Clothes #Christmas #Tales, Myths