Kiasmo - Francesco Di Dio - Frame (4) - Wood, Ceramic

Kiasmo
Serie title: The Built in Mind.
4 pcs
Designer: Francesco Di Dio

Concept
The Built in Mind is a series of illustrations by architect Francesco Di Dio, also known as Effe, for Kiasmo, exploring architecture as a metaphor for the mind. In these works space does not obey the laws of physics or the codes of traditional design: stairs that lead to nowhere, unattainable accesses, suspended and floating volumes, unsustainable proportions. They are structures that do not aim to be built in the real world, but exist exclusively in the fluid territory of thought.
The mind is here the invisible architect. Each image is born as an inner project: a place generated by intuitions, memories, desires, and perceptions. Like an architect, the mind designs spaces, opens passages, raises walls, and invents perspectives through which we interpret the world. But unlike real architecture, these constructions do not have to follow rules, proportions, or functional logics: they can be free, dreamlike, contradictory.
The series reflects on how our thoughts build our inner reality, our “mental house.” We often inhabit invisible structures made of convictions, habits, and interpretations inherited from our culture and environment.
Through Effe’s illustrations, The Built in Mind instead suggests the possibility of becoming architects of our own perception. The imagined architectures become exercises in freedom: places where thought can experiment, deconstruct patterns, and rebuild new interior landscapes; each work is at once building and mental process: a construction that reveals how the reality we inhabit is, above all, a project of the mind.
Tile 20 x 20 cm with passe-partout and a black enamelled wooden frame, accompanied by an authenticity certificate from Kiasmo.
Unreleased, brand-new samples and not yet on the Kiasmo site
Ceramics