Tranker’s artistic expression has been conceptual from the start, combined with a high level of technical skill. This personal tone is most evident in her work on motherhood, which attempts to “bridge the gap between art and life”. Her sculptures of crushed stone and papier-mâché reveal the complexity and paradoxes of the subject, rather than a one-sided, idealised representation of motherhood. To get closer to the nature of motherhood free from social expectations and prescriptions, she turns to the symbols of the matriarchal worldview. Her sculpture, Big Dam, embodies a hybrid being in which ancient forms of femininity, instinctual and conscious, animal and human, are mixed. Her current focus of interest is the study of evolution, development theory and the emergence of human civilisation. For Tranker, the creation of objects is a means of reflecting on the ancient function of art and the contemporary world, which take their final form through an intuitive, personal filter. As she puts it, “in my art, the study of biological and cultural theories of evolution and the struggle for survival both helps to understand the present and provides an opportunity to sketch scenarios for the future”.
Viktória Popovics