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.

Barnoach often works on a large scale,

positioning the body, her own and that

of the viewer, as an active element in the

encounter with the work.