A rarely meaningful institutional voice on the otherwise very much party-politics-aligned cultural landscape of Budapest and Hungary overall whose curations and exhibitions date to highlight issues seemingly in line with the decolonial, “anti-capitalist” and re-imaginative realities of the wider discourses of some art today. The artworks and artists on show can be oftentimes surprising to see within the wider contemporary reality of this doomfully retrograde nation which does make me question the actual purpose and genuine intentions of this shiny institution and i am only hopeful it is not the lack of my cynicism that lets me believe in its purpose especially for and towards local realignments instead of hypocritical foreign-oriented signaling. I might perhaps be too biased in my feelings by having an experience with the likewise ‘westwardly’ oriented signaling of Garage in Moscow. Regardless i stay still more truly confident in the workings of Trafo so check it’s programming out for a less ambivalent experience. And as for the institution or rather a direct message to them: please get rid of this old guard guiding and policing your gates and spaces — they feel and are experienced as the trauma itself!