“Artists set themselves, often knowingly and sometimes unconsciously, ambitious goals unattainable by others. Like the sculptor who sees the sculpture hidden inside the block of stone, Frances Dal Chele set out in search of the statue buried in the concrete. She triumphed over the ordeal by creating a beauty that belongs only to her.” — Ahmet Altan

“The images filled with tart, tangy colours that she brings back from Kayseri and elsewhere, trip after trip, reveal the implacable decay or disappearance of the old city centres and the concomitant rise of peripheral zones bristling with apartment buildings — energetically pursued transformations that make Turkey seem a kind of China in Europe's south-east.” — Armelle Canitrot