Orla Barry is an artist who centres her practice on language, written and spoken. Her work is strongly poetic and lyrical. Barry was born in Ireland, and the rhythm of her phraseology, the pictorial and narrative vernacular on which she draws, somehow evokes her homeland’s topography, climate and literary heritage.
Much of Orla Barry’s photographic, video, performance, text and sound installation work searches for the place where myth, memory and a robust and sensual physical reality intersect. She re-places herself where she’s been removed. She inserts her distinctive blatter of words into everyday talk.
Source: janvaneyck.nl