About

Orly Barnoach studied art at Hamidrasha - Faculty of the Arts, under the guidance of Raffi Lavie.

She is a multidisciplinary visual artist working primarily in installation, sculpture, and drawing, while also maintaining a practice as an interior designer.

Her works emerge from an inquiry into materials and phenomena; she draws

inspiration from industrial matter - metal, wood, plywood, cotton, screws, and bolts - alongside observations of everyday manifestations of material and time: the ways light traverses and transforms space, or how objects, tiles, and textures carry layers of culture, place, and memory.

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In recent years, many of Barnoach’s works have been constructed from industrial

perforated panels of varying scales. Upon them she assembles images, visual codes, or symbols using screws and threads that color the surface and act as a substitute for brush and paint. Other works trace the movement of light across seasons, or emerge from close studies of tiles and carpets in which the marks of time become both source of inspiration and raw material.

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Barnoach often works on a large scale, positioning the body, her own and that of the viewer, as an active element in theencounter with the work.