Francesco

Francesco Di Giuseppe is an Italian artist based in Piedmont whose work brings together image and word as forms to inhabit.

Growing up in a family where artmaking was part of everyday life, he showed an early natural talent for drawing and painting. Over time, his focus deepened around art’s ability to shape perception and influence how we understand our lives, particularly through storytelling, which he explored both academically and independently.

This led him to classical literature and sacred texts, where he became fascinated by how certain passages could offer relief and restore a sense of orientation. During more difficult periods, he would return to them repeatedly — reading, rewriting, and holding onto words as a way to stabilise his inner state.

It is within this relationship with language that the essence of his work began to take form, first through writing, leading to the publication of his novel Memloots – The Exposition in 2019, and later through a renewed engagement with painting, where image and word could finally converge.

His works, which he calls affirmarelles (affirmation + aquarelle), centre on the idea that our experience of reality is closely connected to what we repeatedly think, hold, and return to.

They are not only meant to be observed, but to be inhabited.