Artūras Mitinas is an artist, curator, researcher whose artistic and curatorial practice is based on research at the intersection of art and psychology. He is interested in the possibility to reflect on issues of psychological health, sterility and alienation from the body through the prism of art. The transformation and empowerment of these experiences into sensory expression is an essential part of his practices.

Since 2021 the artist has been researching and developing the notion of nejauka (the uncanny), encompassing not only the definition of unheimlich as in classical psychoanalysis, but also its wider and more general implications of social friction and interpersonal discomfort. He is interested in how worn-out and forgotten social and personal memories can resurface and reveal themselves in unexpected forms; how, under certain circumstances, familiar and close things can reveal an unexpected, foreign side. He analyses affects and situations which may or may not reach significance, culmination, or even consciousness, by attending to them through slow immersion, observation, activating bodily memory and tacit knowledge.

The specific spaces which he attends through his art, exhibitions or curated events are often characterized by heterotopic ambiguity—they have lost their original purpose and linger on the periphery of the dwellers attention. By emphasizing historical inconsistencies and fractures the possibility of a new relation with the space is created. All of this can also be said about ‘inner spaces’, marking personal stages in life, distanced memories.

In Kintai Art Residency Artūras Mitinas is focusing on similar spaces, tracing and fixating their ambigiousness and multifacetedness. He treats these practices as a kind of exercise in anti-sterility, unhurriedness and dwelling.