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 CIUCIOLET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER
LET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER
2022, 6’, video intervention
in frame of an artist residency in Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
sound by Maria Wildeis
DESCRIPTION
‘LET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER’ is an immersive installation inviting people to collectively reclaim their control and sense of time. Inspired by research showing that the specific feeling of awe—like when watching a sunset—can slow down our perception of time.
The work centers around a digital image mimicking the choreography of colors and movements of a sunset. Simply by watching, viewers are invited to pause, elongate their sense of time, and experience a collective slowing-down. In doing so, they create an intervention in the room by collectively decelerating time within the space. This act becomes a quiet, symbolic protest against the fast pace of modern life, reclaiming control.
This installation also reflects on the fading presence of communal contemplation in public life. Sharing stillness with strangers—like watching a sunset—is a rare yet vital form of connection, especially after years of isolation during the pandemic.
The soundscape, created in collaboration with Maria Wildeis, transforms the sound of a church bell—slowed down, reversed, and blended with hissing birds—creating a meditative, non-time bound atmosphere.