audiovisual artist & filmmaker
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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.
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.
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FLORINDA CIUCIOSCREEN TIME
SCREEN TIME
2025, 5’, video installation with wooden structure
installation view of exhibition ‘Setting’ at viafarini.garage, Milano
SCREEN TIME is a constructed window with a video view, depicting a romantic sunset framed within a wooden window structure.
The work is inspired by the popular use of fake fireplace videos as a way to decorate home environments, reinterpreting this concept through landscape by staging a simulated outdoor scene within a constructed window.
SCREEN TIME offers an ironic take on this trend, highlighting the increasing digitalisation of our visual reality.
It presents a deconstructed view not only in a literal sense, but also symbolically. The notion of “the idyllic” is questioned, exposing how much of what we see and compare our lives to in the virtual world is fabricated. This is made evident by the visible wooden structure behind the window, revealing its constructed nature.
To further emphasize this symbolic thread, the video was filmed in my grandparents’ village in Sicily. A place that appears idyllic, yet was ultimately abandoned by many for a variety of reasons.