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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FLORINDA CIUCIOLET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER
LET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER
2022, 6’, video intervention
in frame of an artist residency in Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
sound by Maria Wildeis
DESCRIPTION
LET’S ALL SLOW DOWN TIME TOGETHER is an immersive installation that invites viewers to collectively reclaim their perception of time. It draws on research suggesting that experiences of awe, such as watching a sunset, can alter and slow down our sense of time.
The video consists of a digital image that mimics the shifting colors and movement of a sunset, a stripped-down choreography. By watching it, viewers are invited to pause and experience a shared sense of slowing down. In doing so, they create a collective intervention in the room by “decelerating time” within the space. This becomes a quiet protest against the fast pace of contemporary life and underlines the power of the collective.
The work also reflects on the diminishing role of shared contemplation in public space. Moments of stillness shared with strangers, such as watching a sunset together, have become increasingly rare yet remain essential forms of connection, made especially clear after years of isolation during the pandemic.
The soundscape, created by Maria Wildeis, is based on a church bell - historically used to mark time - slowed down, reversed, and combined with birdsong, producing a meditative, non-linear experience of time.