SCREEN TIME — Florinda Ciucio

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 an interest in video art and installation work.

Her artistic practice focuses on the creation of immersive environments using moving image and sound, examining the relationship between the nervous system and the audiovisual medium. 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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SCREEN TIME
2025, 5’, video installation with wooden structure

 installation view of exhibition ‘Setting’ at viafarini.garage, Milano

DESCRIPTION

SCREEN TIME is a constructed window with a video view, depicting a romantic sunset framed within a wooden window structure.

The work is inspired by the popular use of fake fireplace videos as a way to decorate home environments, reinterpreting this concept through landscape by staging a simulated outdoor scene within a constructed window.

SCREEN TIME offers an ironic take on this trend, highlighting the increasing digitalisation of our visual reality.

It presents a deconstructed view not only in a literal sense, but also symbolically. The notion of “the idyllic” is questioned, exposing how much of what we see and compare our lives to in the virtual world is fabricated. This is made evident by the visible wooden structure behind the window, revealing its constructed nature.

To further emphasize this symbolic thread, the video was filmed in my grandparents’ village in Sicily. A place that appears idyllic, yet was ultimately abandoned by many for a variety of reasons.