Laurence Debecque-Michel :
Franck Longelin : Iconism without icons (extrait)
...Any relation to a narrative context is in abeyance, since psychological and individuel dimension - in other words death, suffering and pain viewed as inherent parts of life - is outmatched by the sacrificial dimension which reflects the eternal existence of evil within man. Far from detail or anecdotes, we perceive the most fondamental human pulsions : war, labour, survival, death, the inevitability of evil, the need for atonement. Yet, nothing is described in a literal way : the bodies are not intent on action but rather twisted, as victims of the resulting exhaustion. The artist mentions an "enigma of body and posture" and bodies lost "in a noman's land of thought", somewhat between the persistance of an ancestral memory and the imagery of ineluctability constantly alternating in an ever-lasting fate...
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