L’âge critique
Enquête photographique fribourgeoise

L’âge critique / The sensitive age is an exhibition generated by a documentary photographic survey program established in 1996 by the cultural department of Canton Fribourg. Nicolas Savary, the laureate of the 2006 competition, proposed a project based on photographs of adolescents in a school setting. The photographer chose a specific subject: school architecture. His project bears witness not only to the current social, historic and geographic situation: above all he provides an analytic description of the frigid, bare, sometimes downright prison-like environment in which these young people spend their everyday existence. The project becomes the critique of an age, caught between the age when anything is possible and a “world in which dreams reach their end”.