Kiasmo - Francesco Di Dio - Frame (2) - Wood, Canvas

Kiasmo
Series title: The Built in Mind.
2 pieces
Designer: Francesco Di Dio

Concept
The Built in Mind is a series of illustrations by architect Francesco Di Dio, 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 leading to nowhere, unreachable entrances, 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 here is the invisible architect. Each image begins as an interior project: a place generated by intuitions, memories, desires, and perceptions. Like an architect, the mind designs spaces, opens passages, erects walls, and invents perspectives through which we interpret the world. But unlike real architecture, these constructions do not need to follow rules, proportions, or functional logic: they can be free, dreamlike, and contradictory.
The series reflects on how our thoughts build our inner reality, our “mental house.” Often we inhabit invisible structures made of beliefs, habits, and interpretations inherited from our culture and environment.
Through Effe’s illustrations, The Built in Mind suggests the possibility of becoming architects of one’s own perception. The imagined architectures become exercises in freedom: places where thought can experiment, deconstruct patterns, and rebuild new inner landscapes; each work is at once a building and a mental process: a construction that reveals how the reality we inhabit is, first and foremost, a project of the mind.
Two prints on textured wallpaper paper, framed with natural wood and matte black glaze, accompanied by an authenticity certificate from Kiasmo.
Unpublished, brand-new samples not yet available on Kiasmo’s site.
Size 46 x 30 cm
Format A3 with frame.