Francesco Lietti has worked with young people in schools and institutions across Asia, Europe, and the United States since 2016.
Children build in much the same way cities grow: by layering, by accumulation, by instinct before plan. Their marks arrive before rational control intervenes, producing a kind of spatial thinking that is collective, intuitive, and unplanned.
Observing that process has become part of Lietti’s wider reflection on how images, spaces, and structures take form. The same logic runs through his canvases: thousands of small gestures, accumulated over time, finding their own coherence.
