London and Cyprus based artist and researcher, working primarily with moving-image and textual based works engaging with memory, non-linear temporality and ritual performances. 

Informed by an MA Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths College and the Radical Film School, their lens-based work moves between ethnographic, documentary and experimental film. Alongside a moving image practice, Florenza is deeply committed to alternative pedagogical spaces, and public programming as a site of collective learning. They are the co-founder of Critical Coffee Reading.

Florenza’s work has been screened at SET Woolwich, BFI, Cyprus High Commission, Cyens Thinker Makerspace and Swansea University Egypt Centre amongst others. Most recently, Florenza has been making a short documentary film on the LGBTQ+ Pride Protests in north Cyprus, supported by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Global Feminist Pitch. They are also currently refurbishing the old Toplum Postası building on Green Lanes, London, turning the defunct newspaper office into a community centre.

Their practice is collaborative, exploratory and multilingual, grounded in community. 

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As part of an ongoing research project, this work-in-progress is an excavation from the director's personal archives. Family videos from the early 2000s, recorded by her journalist father, Serhat İncirli, are assembled to reveal fragments of a politicised familial life. Both father and daughter mediate their experience of the world through film and text. Through repetition, ritual and conversation, this work explores how children in the Cypriot diasporas perceive and experience memory, cultural identity and displacement.

An experimental short film, a homage to the haunting scenes of decay, the effects of capitalist slow violence caused by Cyprus Mines Corporation on the region of Lefke. Produced during an artists residency at Cyens Thinker Makerspace, Nicosia. 

A digital archive of 3D scans of objects collected from the field site, Lefke, during a 2022 residency at Cyens Thinker Makerspace. Objects include wood from the abandoned Cyprus Mines Corporation train tracks, dried flora and baskets woven in the region.

Critical Coffee Reading is a reading and research group founded in 2024 by Florenza Deniz İncirli and Ibrahim Ince. They organise monthly virtual reading sessions, where researchers from across the world sip fortune coffee and discuss what it means to write and read Cyprus, and other coffee-reading geographies. Alongside reading sessions, they have recently begun programming a Crit Café for emerging researchers and artists to connect and provide meaningful, critical feedback on one another's work, alongside in-person public programming in Cyprus and the UK.

Exploring a new medium, particularly an embodied one such as performance, has been particularly challenging and stimulating over the last 19 months. A period of development supported by Arts Council England’s DYCP grant directly enabled not only exploration and experimentation, but also a strengthening of relationships with ongoing collaborators. 

117 is a multi-purpose community space with a recording studio in the basement, which once housed the now-defunct first Turkish-language newspaper in London; Toplum Postası. With collaborators, volunteers and collectives, we are working to restore it to its former vibrancy through public events, workshops, and a co-working space.