Artist Statement

Transforming every day’s environment into spectacle. Hunting for the sounds that slip our attention. Looking at what has been already seen, yet with intensity, focus and courage to elevate its mundane status.

I attempt to re-present our everyday environment and experience and modulate it in a contemplative, symbolic, conceptual and unusual way in order to explore the possibilities that we are offered but rarely consider for its lack of common application, sense and practice. I seek to enhance environment I negotiate via its creative representation in altered context. Juxtaposing reality to its absurd, surreal, dadaistic and contemplatively static utmost, I attempt to highlight concepts that we steadily overlook, yet are in direct contact with.

I aim to present a critical point of view on issues that are under-addressed due to their seemingly granted status quo by re-discovering and de-mystifying social mechanisms underlying phenomena that we perceive as naturally given. I aim to address people through social and psychological relevance of my work. I aim to make one reconsider, think, feel and contemplate.

Michal Mitro