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

Kiasmo
Title of the series: 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, aka Effe, for Kiasmo, and it explores architecture as a metaphor for the mind. In these works space does not obey the laws of physics nor the codes of traditional design: stairs that lead to nothing, unreachable accesses, suspended and floating volumes, unsustainable proportions. They are structures that do not aspire 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 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 have to respect rules, proportions or functional logics: they can be free, dreamlike, 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 our own perception. The imagined architectures then become freedom exercises: places where thought can experiment, deconstruct patterns and reconstruct new interior landscapes, each work being at once building and mental process: a construction that reveals how the reality we inhabit is, first of all, a project of the mind.
4 prints on textured wallpaper paper framed with natural wood and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Kiasmo.
Unreleased, brand-new samples and not yet available on the Kiasmo site
Size 44 x 44 cm