Bio
Noga Or-Yam is an artist whose installation-based practice combines archival research, family histories, and collective memory. Employing multiple media, her works explore questions of home, belonging, and identity, examining how personal and national narratives are constructed, dismantled, and reimagined.
Or-Yam was awarded an M.F.A. from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and holds a B.Ed.F.A. in Art and Education, as well as a certificate in Curatorial Studies and Visual Literacy from Kibbutzim College. Her work has been presented in a solo exhibition at The Refrigerator Gallery and in exhibitions in Israel and internationally, including Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya Artists’ House, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, and Artport.
Artist Statement
My practice is driven by a desire to wander through spaces to which my access is limited. It is a process of inquiry that seeks to approach silenced areas of memory, expand narratives that have become too fixed, and make space for dwelling within the uncertainty that lies at their core.
The studio serves as a conceptual and material site of research, where questions are explored through acts of collecting, dismantling, and reassembling. The choice of medium emerges from the research process and from the relationships that arise through diverse archival materials.
I return to materials from the past in search of possibilities that have been omitted from the story—voices, images, and alternative readings that never entered the dominant narrative. Rather than treating these materials as closed historical records, I approach them as living matter that can be reread, re-edited, and repositioned within new contexts. Through acts of cutting, assembling, and juxtaposing historical fragments, I weave together personal and collective memory, leaving loose ends open to interpretation and the construction of new meanings.
Installation is the primary medium through which I work, incorporating sound, video, animation, and sculpture. Much like the processes of dismantling and reassembling that shape my research, I seek to create spaces in which the narrative remains incomplete and resists a single resolution. Instead, these spaces invite viewers to dwell in uncertainty, question narratives we have come to perceive as fixed, and perhaps, through their fragmentation, open themselves to new possibilities.

Photography: Inon Khalfon