audiovisual artist & filmmaker
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Florinda Ciucio (Antwerp, 1993) is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Italy and Belgium. She graduated from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels as a film director. After directing several short films, she developed a practice in video art and installation work.
Influenced by her background in cinema, she works with fixed frames, darkened spaces, and suspended time. Working with time as a central element, she uses rhythm, repetition, and routine to create slow, attentive moments that highlight the process of looking, listening, and paying attention in an overstimulated visual culture.
Her current research examines our relationship to landscape and technology, creating work that functions both sensorially and critically. Through this, her work engages with landscape as a constructed and mediated space, where technological processes actively shape how reality is seen, understood, and experienced. She uses media such as film footage, CGI, AI, archival video, sound design, photography, and spatial installations.
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FLORINDA CIUCIO GREEN DOSE
GREEN DOSE
2025, 17’8”, 3-channel video installation
Produced in residency at VIAFARINI in Milan
installation view at Noorderlicht Biennale 2025
CGI: Studio Microchaos
Supported by Flanders State of Arts
DESCRIPTION
GREEN DOSE features CGI constructed landscapes, inspired by the Val Di Mello region in Italy, with a pink noise soundscape simulating a water stream.
The work explores the framing of nature as a consumable product for mental health.
It consists of three screens, creating an immersive inverionment. The landscapes in the videos are constructed in relation to scientific research on “Attention Restoration Theory”, which suggests that immersing oneself in a natural environments that invite exploration and novelty can reduce stress by engaging the brain’s default mode network, allowing the mind to wander and unwind.
Restoration occurs when the environment encourages mental exploration and offers experiences beyond the familiar. The images are therefore selected and framed in accordance with this theory, combined with research on landscape aesthetics and preference.
Recent mental health studies recommend at least 2 hours of nature exposure per week to reduce stress, which amounts to a daily “dose “ of 17 minutes and 8 seconds.
Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in the environment for sensory relaxation and mental restoration, taking in their daily dose of “vitamin G”, exactly measured according to these medical guidelines.
With these hyper-realistic AI/CGI landscapes, the question arises: does it really matter whether the environment is real or an atificial imitation?
Framing nature as a consumable entity, like a vitamin supplement, fuels its increasing artificialisation and encourages a reductionist view of nature. GREEN DOSE reflects on this commodification of nature and its presentation as something that can be consumed or prescribed.