Anca Poterasu Gallery presents Delia Popa’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, titled “Place of action – Crețești/ Loc de acțiune – Crețești”, curated by Julie Crenn. The show creates a space where local heritage, global influences, and personal history intersect, challenging the marginalization of the rural world in contemporary culture.

“Delia Popa and I share a desire to make rural areas visible. It remains an unthought-of part of the collective imagination. We speak of the countryside as if it were an undefined, unlocated space, as if it were a non-place.” (Fragment from the curatorial text)

Delia Popa (born 1980, Bucharest) works with mediums such as painting, video, installation, performance and participatory projects. Her current research focuses on the representation of the rural landscape and local topography in relation to ecological awareness, gentrification and agriculture. She is also active as an art pedagogue and mediator and contributes to the development of life skills and visual thinking skills among children and young people. Since 2013, she has been leading ArtCrowd-Artists in education, an art education association and since 2024, she has been part, alongside Nita Mocanu, of the artistic duo ART ROSA.

Julie Crenn is an art historian, art critic (AICA) and independent curator. Since 2018, she is associated curator of Transpalette – Contemporary art center of Bourges. In 2005, she obtained a Master’s degree in art history and criticism at Rennes 2 University, with a dissertation on the art of Frida Kahlo. Following on from her research into feminist and decolonial practices, she received a doctorate in Arts (history and theory) from the Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux III. Her thesis is a reflection on contemporary textile practices (from 1970 to the present day). Since then, she has been conducting intersectional research into bodies, memories and artistic activism.

The exhibition will be open until July 26, 2027. Free entrance.