Window with seaview II (2025)Acrylic painting
by Delnara El

This painting was created especially for my solo exhibition in Venice at ANSL Gallery, held during the closing days of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

This work from my window series is not a view outward but a frame for memory. The sea horizon appears through an oil-painted window set into oil-painted plaster, surrounded by torn layers—cardboard and real wallpaper. I also use original engineering drawings brought from home; in a family of engineers, those sheets wrapped school sandwiches, became scratch paper, even filled winter boots for storage. Reused here, they turn into a material of memory, returning measurement to a room now gauged by touch and distance to light. The blueprint collides with the cracked wall, and the boundary between painted elements and real materials is deliberately erased. The window becomes an instrument of orientation, holding a sea view many Ukrainians have been forced to lose, so a portable sense of home can endure.

The work consists of two parts and they can be hung either end-to-end or with a gap.

Materials used:

acrylic, wallpaper, drawings

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 180 x 90 x 0.5cm (unframed)
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky