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 nor the codes of traditional design: staircases 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 intuition, 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 need to obey rules, proportions, or functional logics: they can be free, dreamlike, and contradictory.
The series reflects on how our thoughts build our inner reality, our “mental home.” We often inhabit invisible structures made of beliefs, habits, and interpretations inherited from our culture and environment.
Through Effe’s illustrations, The Built in Mind suggests instead the possibility of becoming architects of one’s own perception. The imagined architectures then 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 in natural wood and accompanied by an authenticity certificate from Kiasmo.
New, unpublished samples not yet on the Kiasmo site
Size 46 x 30
A3 format plus frame