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 CIUCIOTHE TELEPHONE GAME
THE TELEPHONE GAME
2024, 5’, 8-channel sound installation
project support by VOCATIO foundation
installation view at public library ‘Permeke’, Antwerp, Belgium
DESCRIPTION
THE TELEPHONE GAME is an 8-channel sound installation, exploring fake news and misinformation. Through a children’s game in which a story is gradually being distorted as it is passed along a whisper chain, the work reveals how news stories change as they spread.
A group of teenage high school students in Antwerp, Belgium share a fictional news article through this whisper chain. The article is inspired by the complexities of today’s geopolitics and each version of the article is recorded one after the other. The installation features 8 audio channels, each playing a different version of the article, revealing a gradual distortion.
As the story evolves across the 8 speakers, it becomes increasingly absurd and humorous, because of the boundless imagination of young people. The work demonstrates how easily the truth becomes distorted and how quickly roles can shift between “the perpetrator” and “ the victim”, or “the good” and “the bad”.