audiovisual artist & filmmaker
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My audiovisual practice reflects on life in an overstimulated world.
I create slow, quiet moments that offer pauses in time, to invite deeper reflections on how we perceive and experience our environments and process information. In a world that pushes for constant speed, productivity and attention, exploring what it is to slow down feels to me like a poetic act of resistance.
I often draw inspiration from research on environmental psychology, landscape theory, and mental health to explore how our attention and nervous systems are shaped by the constant flow of daily stimuli and our fading connection to nature.
With a background in film directing, I’m very much influenced by the cinematic experience where viewers sit in a dark room and time feels suspended and controlled. This feeling of immersion and time-awareness shapes how I create work to both calm and unsettle, inviting people not just to look or listen, but to notice themselves: how they wait, how they crave, how they connect.
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 CIUCIO GREEN DOSE
GREEN DOSE
2025, 17’8”, 3-channel video installation
Produced in residency at VIAFARINI in Milan
installation view at Noorderlicht Biennale 2025
CGI: Studio Microchaos
Supported by Flanders State of Arts
DESCRIPTION
GREEN DOSE features CGI landscapes inspired by the iconic Val di Mello region, accompanied by a pink-noise soundscape simulating water. The work explores the scientific theory of Attention Restoration Theory, which suggests that immersing oneself in a natural landscape that invites exploration and novelty can reduce stress by engaging the brain’s default mode network, allowing the mind to wander and unwind from the focused attention demanded by daily life.
The research states that a general natural environment is not automatically a true restorative environment. According to the Attention Restoration Theory, genuine restoration occurs when the environment encourages mental exploration as well and offer fresh experiences beyond the familiar. Thus the images are chosen and framed in accordance with this theory combined with others around landscape preferences aesthetics.
Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in the environment, for some sensory relaxation and mental restoration, taking in their daily dose of nature, you daily dose of Vitamin G, exactly measured, according to the medical guidelines. Recent mental health studies recommend at least 120 minutes of nature exposure per week to reduce stress, which amounts to a daily dose of 17 minutes and 8 seconds.
Framing nature as such a consumable entity, much like a vitamin supplement, fuels its increasing artificialization. With these hyper-realistic AI-generated landscapes the question arises: does it really matter whether the environment is real or an artificial imitation?
This installation critiques this reductionist view on nature, questioning the commodification of nature and presenting it as something that can be “consumed” or prescribed like medication supplements.
By drawing attention to this absurd framing, the work encourages viewers to reflect on the broader implications of reducing nature to a commodity, encouraging a dialogue about humanity’s increasingly artificial relationship with the natural world and the consequences of such detachment.