audiovisual artist & filmmaker
ciucioflorinda@gmail.com
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My audiovisual practice reflects on how we perceive and inhabit our environments. I create slow, quiet moments that act as pauses in time, opening up spaces for reflection on how reality is constructed, mediated, and experienced.
Through stillness, repetition and duration, I explore boundaries between inside and outside, nature and the built environment, presence and illusion.
With a background in film directing, I am strongly influenced by the cinematic experience: the darkened room, the fixed frame, and a sense of suspended time. Exploring what it is to slow down, in a world that pushes for constant speed, productivity and attention, feels to me like a poetic act of resistance.
This sensibility shapes how I construct installations and videos that oscillate between calm and subtle tension, inviting viewers not only to look or listen, but to become aware of their own presence: how they wait, how they observe, how they relate to the space.
Alongside this, my documentary practice is based on poetical observations that are rooted in sensorial experience of environments. Working with real-time observation, my films emphasize tactility and presence over explanation, using landscape, movement and everyday gestures to carry meaning. Experiences of migration, belonging, friendship and time are allowed to unfold gradually, through slowness, repetition, and metaphor.
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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 landscapes inspired by the iconic Val di Mello region, accompanied by a pink-noise soundscape simulating water. The work explores the scientific theory of Attention Restoration Theory, which suggests that immersing oneself in a natural landscape that invites exploration and novelty can reduce stress by engaging the brain’s default mode network, allowing the mind to wander and unwind from the focused attention demanded by daily life.
The research states that a general natural environment is not automatically a true restorative environment. According to the Attention Restoration Theory, genuine restoration occurs when the environment encourages mental exploration as well and offer fresh experiences beyond the familiar. Thus the images are chosen and framed in accordance with this theory combined with others around landscape preferences aesthetics.
Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in the environment, for some sensory relaxation and mental restoration, taking in their daily dose of nature, you daily dose of Vitamin G, exactly measured, according to the medical guidelines. Recent mental health studies recommend at least 120 minutes of nature exposure per week to reduce stress, which amounts to a daily dose of 17 minutes and 8 seconds.
Framing nature as such a consumable entity, much like a vitamin supplement, fuels its increasing artificialization. With these hyper-realistic AI-generated landscapes the question arises: does it really matter whether the environment is real or an artificial imitation?
This installation critiques this reductionist view on nature, questioning the commodification of nature and presenting it as something that can be “consumed” or prescribed like medication supplements.
By drawing attention to this absurd framing, the work encourages viewers to reflect on the broader implications of reducing nature to a commodity, encouraging a dialogue about humanity’s increasingly artificial relationship with the natural world and the consequences of such detachment.