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

Kiasmo
Title of the series: 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, aka 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, inaccessible 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 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, erects walls and invents perspectives through which we interpret the world. But unlike real architecture, these constructions do not have to respect rules, proportions or functional logic: they can be free, dreamlike, 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 interior landscapes; each work is at once a building and a mental process: a construction that reveals how the reality we inhabit is, above all, a project of the mind.
Two prints on textured wallpaper, framed with natural wood and accompanied by an authenticity certificate from Kiasmo.
Unpublished, brand-new samples not yet available on the Kiasmo site.
Size 46 x 30 cm
Format A3 plus frame.