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.



CV
FLORINDA CIUCIOSCREEN TIME


SCREEN TIME
2025, 5’, video installation with wooden structure


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



DESCRIPTION



Inspired by the recent popular use of fake fireplace videos, SCREEN TIME is a variation on this concept using landscape, staging a fake window view to construct an artificial outdoor scene.
The work offers an ironic take on this trend, highlighting the increasing digitalisation of our visual reality and exposing how much of what we see and compare our lives to is fabricated, made evident by the visibility of the structure behind the image.

The work also offers a deconstructing of the idea of “the idyllic” as a concept, referencing how the images we consume are often staged or manipulated, shaping unrealistic comparisons to our own lives and surroundings.

What we perceive as an ideal or idyllic life is often a projection of these constructs rather than a truth. To emphasize this, I incorporate footage from my ancestral village in Sicily - a place that appears like an idyllic landscape, yet was ultimately abandoned by many for a reason.










©2026 Florinda Ciucio