Anikó Loránt’s drawing practice was based on repetition, reuse, and the merging of various styles and mediums. Her poetic drawings and paintings are usually everyday observations with the aim of interpreting the world, often with attributes of transcendentalism. Loránt’s work was fundamentally shaped – both thematically and practically – by the experience of motherhood, and she worked on multiple projects at once focusing on issues of extended care and sustainability, subsistence skills, the history of farming, foraging, slow living and the inseparable bonds between the human and non-human realms. The latter is the focus of the presentation of her paintings and drawings here. While Loránt’s works have mostly been presented in the framework of the ‘ex-artists’ collective she established with her partner, artist Tamás Kaszás, the presentation as part of It Takes a Village has developed through a conversation with Tamás Kaszás, Krisztián Kristóf and curator Lívia Páldi, who have worked together to establish Loránt as a significant individual artist in her own right.

Anikó Loránt (1977–2020) graduated from the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest in 2003. Her oeuvre is mostly preserved in more than forty sketchbooks and notebooks of varying sizes. They are usually closely related, diverse elaborations of themes and symbols, diary-like entries, short notes on readings and various series of drawings prepared for installations. She expanded her programme of non- growth to develop a community toolkit for ecological crisis and life outside of post-industrial society.