Émilie Schmutz, Alexandre Gutierrez, Joaquim Barman, 2020
The work was inaugurated summer 2020 and is located on the grassy hill overlooking Place Georges-Python. It is presented in the form of fourteen fibro-cement school chairs solidly fixed to a central base and each equipped with a writing desk, giving the impression of an audience petrified in time, in the open air.
This creation, which highlights the student identity of Fribourg, recreates in public space the atmosphere experienced by the 15,000 or so students who study in the city. The designers of the work announce their intention to offer a playful installation that encourages social exchanges and hope for an original appropriation of the work by the population.
As a reminder, in 2015 the City of Fribourg launched a call for projects for the creation of artistic street furniture, with the aim of enabling the population to benefit from the acquisition of works of art. The following year, the first two tables were inaugurated: the "Table du Bourg", designed by Joris Pasquier, and the "Concrete slab on crushed Jaguar" by designer Boris Dennler, located on the Plateau de Pérolles.
With this third work, proudly enthroned in the "Places district", the City of Fribourg intends to offer a real collection of tables to the people of the city and its visitors.
Place Georges-Python
1700 Fribourg
