Freedom (Frudakis)

Freedom is a bronze public sculpture in the form of a large slab and a freestanding statue by American sculptor Zenos Frudakis, installed in 2000 outside the offices of GlaxoSmithKline in central Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[1][a] The slab is said to represent freedom from all restrictions: mental, political, religious, and physical,[3] and has been called a "visual metaphor for the process of transformation".

Frudakis left the inscription "stand here" in the cavity vacated by the figure as an invitation for viewers to pose for a photograph.

[6] Frudakis cast his own face and his sculpting tools as part of the artwork, and included depictions of twenty-five people and a cat in the bronze.

[7] Writing in The Independent in 2021, John Rentoul ranked the sculpture fifth on his top-ten list of best public artworks.

Detail of Freedom