Orly Cogan, Stitching Schiele, 2021
By: Dorothé Swinkels
Orly Cogan's practice is featured in the Dutch magazine, TxP (Textiel Plus). The article explores the artistic development of her practice, her hybrid approach to textile art, and transforming a photograph "into a tangible, living surface" through embroidery.
"Orly redefines embroidery not as decoration, but as an intimate, poetic, and contemporary language that simultaneously evokes a surrealist embrace of dreams and the irrational. Subtly yet emphatically, her embroidered tableaus draw upon the feminine as a source of sensitivity, humor, and resilience. The softness of the yarn forms a stage for disarming truths, where childlike wonder coexists with cultural criticism. Her practice builds upon the feminist revaluation of needlework, pioneered by artists such as Miriam Schapiro, Louise Bourgeois, and Judy Chicago."
Read the full article here, and below.