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(1993, Antwerp, Belgium)
Florinda Ciucio (1993, Antwerp, Belgium) is a visual artist and filmmaker, graduated from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels in 2018. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at IDFA, Dokleipzig, Espace Vanderborght Brussels, Beursschouwburg Brussels, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Estonia, Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam and Centro Luigi di Sarro in Rome. In 2021 she was a laureate in the national Artcontest competition in Belgium and in 2023 she won the VOCATIO award for young artists and researchers in Belgium. She has participated in international residencies, such as Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2022 and more recently in 2024 she participated in the Viafarini residency in Milan.
In her installation work she examines the issue of sensory overstimulation in our societies, through the creation of immersive spaces with image and sound. She explores through these audiovisual experiences how our nervous system and our capacity for contemplation is impacted. Drawing from research in the psycho-analysis of landscape aesthetics and preferences, her installations challenge viewers to confront the relentless sensory inputs of daily life, offering a space to experience time and presence differently, beyond the pressures of constant stimuli.
In her films she often centers the feeling of sensorial overstimulation through working with the element of time featuring concepts as cycles, rhythm, repetition and routines. She explores its meditative and contemplative impact. Through this work, she aims to encourage silence and question the incessant impulses of daily life.
education
2017- 2018 Master's degree in Audiovisual Arts, LUCA School of Arts Brussels
2014- 2017 Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Arts, LUCA School of Arts Brussels
awards/grants
FLANDERS DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND ARTS Residency grant 2024
VOCATIO AWARD laureate 2023
ARTCONTEST Laureate of 2021
VLAAMS AUDIOVISUEEL FONDS Production Grant 2021
BREEDBEELD Grant for audiovisual project development 2020
SABAM Grant for audiovisual development 2018
residencies/labs
VIAFARINI 2024 Artist residency, Milano
OFFICINA STAMPERIA DEL NOTTAIO 2023 Artist in residence, Tusa, Sicily
CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS PARIS 2023 Artist in residence, Paris
CENTRO LUIGI DI SARRO 2022 Artist in residence, Rome
CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS PARIS 2022 Atelier Koningin Elisabeth van België residency supported by Flanders State of Arts
HET BOS Artist in residence 2021, Antwerp
VLAAMS AUDIOVISUEEL FONDS Ket&Doc Development Lab 2020-2021, Brussels
UNITED NATIONS Trainee program 2019 at the Audiovisual Department, Madrid
exhibitions
2024 ‘Viafarini open studio’, Via Farini Studio, Milan (Italy) Curated by Giulio Verago
2024 ‘Terrain Instable’, La Forge, Souilac (France) Curated by Andreea Macea
2024 ‘Far away’, Royal Academy of Art, Antwerp (Belgium) Curated by Pamela Garcìa, Aline Kraus
2023 ‘Fragile’, Pôle Culturel de Rochebelle (France) Curated by Carla Contournet
2023 New Media Art Fair Ruhr, Zolverrein (Germany)
2022 ‘Inside out’, Instituto di Cultura de Italia, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Curated by Alessandra Di Sarro, Veronica Budini
2022 ‘Inside out’, Centro Luigi Di Sarro, Rome (Italy) Curated by Alessandra Di Sarro, Veronica Budini
2022 Group exhibition ‘ARP’, Edward Lear gallery, Berat (Albania)
2022 Group exhibition ‘ARP’, Consulate General de Italia, Valona (Albania)
2022 Group exhibition ‘Blue Rain’, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France)
2022 ‘Open Studio’, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France)
2021 ‘Horaizon’, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (Belgium) Curated by Meggy Rustamova, Dagmar Dirkx
2021 ‘Artcontest 2021’, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels (Belgium)
2021 ‘Vruchtbare grond’, Het Bos, Antwerp (Belgium)
2020 ‘Breedbeeld’, Bosland, Helchteren (Belgium)
2018 ‘seasonal neighbours’, In situ Borgloon (Belgium) Curated by Ciel Grommen
film festivals
2023 Beholder Film festival (The Netherlands)
2023 Cut to Gent Film Festival (Belgium)
2023 Film Fest Dresden (Germany)
2023 Olympia film festival (Greece)
2023 Go Short film festival, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
2022 IDFA film festival, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2022 Cinekid film festival, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2022 DOKleipzig film festival, Leipzig (Germany)
2022 Docville documentary festival, Leuven (Belgium)
2022 JEF Film Festival, Antwerp (Belgium)
2021 Rencontres Internationales Paris (France)
2018 London international documentary festival (UK)
2018 World film festival, Malmo (Sweden)
2018 Szczecin European film festival (Poland)
2018 Trento film festival (Italy)
2018 International documentary festival, Ierapetra (Greece)
2018 Roma Cinema Doc (Italy)
2018 Caminhos film festival, Coimbra (Portugal)
2018 Screening,National Museum of Contemporary Art (Estonia)
2017 VISITE film program Het Bos, Antwerp (Belgium)
2017 CEME doc film festival, Madrid (Spain)
2017 Back_up Media and Arts Festival, Weimar (Germany)
2017 Dokumentart, Brandenburg (Germany)
2016 CEME doc film festival, Mexico City (Mexico)
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