JUPITER — Florinda Ciucio

visual artist & filmmaker
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Florinda Ciucio (Antwerp, 1993) is a visual artist and film-
maker from Belgium. She holds a Master’s degree in Film
Directing from LUCA School of Arts Brussels. After directing
short documentaries, she expanded her practice into video
art and installation.

Working with moving image, CGI, archival material, photo-
graphy and sound, her practice explores how technology and
images shape our perception of reality. Her works often fo-
cus on landscapes, memory and digital media, questioning
the distance between what is real and what is constructed,
projected or imagined.

Her work has been supported by the Flanders Department
of Culture and Arts, VOCATIO and the Flanders Film Fund,
and developed through residencies at Viafarini Milan and
Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. Her work has been pre-
sented internationally, including at LOOP Barcelona, Noor-
derlicht Biennale, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, Castel Belasi and Espace
Vanderborght Brussels.

FLORINDA CIUCIOJUPITER

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JUPITER
2022, 4’33”, video

- installation view at CENTRO LUIGI DI SARRO, 2022

DESCRIPTION

JUPITER combines video footage of nighttime lightning over
the mountains with a soundscape of a variety of drumming
sounds.

The work creates a dialogue between the lightning and the
drums, as a question between rhythm and randomness,
patterns and unpredictability. There is no climax, no thun-
der and no recurrent pattern guiding the viewer.

The lightning and drums both seem to create a sense of an-
ticipation, suggesting that something is about to happen,
though it remains unclear what and when.

JUPITER plays with this tension of expectations, reflecting
on times of instability and uncertainty.