Orly Barnach is a multidisciplinary visual artist and graduate of The Midrasha – Faculty of the Arts. Her practice focuses on installation, sculpture, and drawing, while she also works as an interior designer.
Barnach's works emerge from an ongoing exploration of materials and phenomena, using them as a means to express complex ideas. A central technique in her practice involves assembling perforated industrial metal panels of varying sizes. Onto these surfaces, she constructs visual imagery, symbolic codes, and abstract forms using screws and threads that transform the panels into layered compositions.
Another significant aspect of her work is the long-term observation of light and its movement over time, as well as close examination of everyday materials from both domestic environments—such as tiles and carpets—and public urban spaces. The traces left by time become both inspiration and artistic material.
Barnach positions both her own body and the viewer's body as active participants in the encounter with the artwork. The functionality of her materials is intentionally ambiguous: metal panels, screws, and threads appear as familiar, tangible objects while simultaneously operating as abstract systems of memory, movement, and accumulated layers of time.
Each of her works creates a dialogue between the physical presence of materials and a conceptual dimension that seeks to redefine the relationships between matter, memory, and the body.
