Michal Mitro
Slovakia
Michal Mitro, born in 1989 in Slovakia, is a conceptual artist, composer, and performer with a diverse practice spanning various media. His work delves into the subtle details of everyday life, focusing on aspects that, despite their commonality and familiarity, often go unnoticed and unexamined. Mitro aims to blur the lines between the audience and the artist/composer, redefining the art-making process to be more inclusive, accessible, and engaging to the public. Since 2010, he has pursued education in multiple artistic fields. After graduating from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic in 2012, he continued his studies in Sculpture and Sound Arts at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and later explored traditional Indonesian music (Karawitan) at ISBI Bandung. Mitro has exhibited and performed internationally, particularly in Australia, Indonesia, and the Czech Republic.
PRESENCE
Solo Exhibition - 15 January – 15 February, 2016
REDBASE Foundation Indonesia
PRESENCE transforms everyday environments and overlooked sensory details into a contemplative artistic spectacle. In this exhibition, the artist offers a re-representation of ordinary experiences by hunting for ambient sounds that slip our attention and recontextualizing mundane spaces into surreal, absurd, and Dadaesque compositions. By modulating familiar settings and de-mystifying social mechanisms that are often taken for granted, Mitro brings forth a critical examination of under-addressed phenomena embedded in daily life. Ultimately, the work invites viewers to slow down, reconsider their immediate surroundings, and engage in a deeper psychological and social contemplation of the realities we constantly inhabit yet steadily ignore.
