works
Landscape for Children and Persons Who Are Blind (2026)
This work is inspired by the lanscapes of Săcel, Maramureș - landscape is seen here as the totallity of the visible ”population” of an area, including plants, crops, animals, logs, houses,machines, cars, streets, electric poles, mountains, hills, clouds, but not only as an aesthetic
experience, but also as creating awareness around the interaction between all these actors. Visual art has an important tactile component that becomes lost through the process of museification of the artwork. Children especially will be invited to reconfigure the work as a
puzzle and also as permutations of the tiles to create new works. Made for „Agir dans don lieu- Săcel” exhibition, curated by Julie Crenn, Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2026.
Crețești Garden as Chinese Landscape (2022-present)
"Loc de acțiune Crețești” was a solo exhibition held at Anca Poterașu Gallery in Bucharest in 2025. There my series ”Crețești Garden as Chinese Landscape” was presented in the form of 4 large scale ink monochrom paintings on artificial silk, alongside other works in ceramics, clay and painted tiles. ”Delia Popa takes landscape scenes from the village and transposes them into paintings on fabric. To escape Western references and codes, the artist turns her gaze to the East, and more specifically to China. For her, it’s a question of displacing the Western sphere of influence to envisage other perspectives and other cultural circulations.” Julie Crenn, curator of the exhibition.
"Takyrian Empire" (7000 - 5000 B.C.E.)
"Takyrian Empire" depicts a mythical society of rat/mouse people living in a matriarchal society a few thousands of years ago. Some of the art they left to us are erotic prayer flags, parade flags and other textiles showcasing their craftsmanship, their Gods-worship and human-animal symbiosis. Female pleasure and desire seems to have been placed at the center of this civilization as a way to prevent wars and violence.
Anthropologists and archaeologists are asking themselves: "Was this an Utopian, perfect society or was it just as flawed as our current civilization? The more they uncover artifacts the more they will be able to answer this and more pressing questions..."
"The Beach (An Erotic Fantasy)" (2019)
This project was inspired by the discourse of the saviour scenarios and gratitude in some pornographic videos, especially home videos, available on the internet. I made this series to explore the relationship between guilty fantasies, the expression of them and the rather minimal presence of female satisfaction in adult movies. Again, do not enter if you are not an adult, very revealing imagery! The works was made especially for an exhibition at GrawBoeckler Garage in Berlin, Germany in 2019. Exhibition images under Exhibitions/Installations
"The Girl with Tentacles" (2017-2018)
"At Sandwich, Delia POPA continues her series of engravings, drawings and paintings Existential mice (2011 – present) in which anthropomorphic characters take on various human roles and communicate with each other, touching on various subjects like feminism or marginality. This time, however, the characters discard verbal communication and take on a physical approach – a fantasy they fully relish and over which, without a doubt, they have complete control. For the moment, The existential mouse doesn't look for intellectual answers anymore, but unapologetically lives them. (Text from "The Girl with Tentacles" exhibition at Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, 2017.) As of 2020 Flag I/After Hokusai is part of the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest/MNAC and in 2021 ``Flag I/After Hokusai Version 2`` has been acquired and is now in the collection of Rainald Schumacher and Natalie Hoyos/Office for Art in Berlin.
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