Department of Photography
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David Adika is a photographer, artist, and Head of the Photography Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. A senior lecturer in the Department of Photography since 1999, he holds bachelor’s (BFA) and master’s (MFA) degrees from Bezalel.
David Adika’s work focuses on the visual and cultural facets of the local Middle Eastern space as a microcosm that reflects his social and family identity. His photographic corpus contains representations of various still life and portraits, blurring the boundaries between abstract conceptual language and lavish visual accuracy. Adika’s visual research explores intimate yet universal biographies, while the photographs unfold familiar and unfamiliar aspects of everyday life and highlight questions of taste and social status.
Adika has had many solo exhibitions in Israeli and international venues, among them Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Art Museum in Riga, Latvia, Bologna MUSEI, Casa Morandi, Italy, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, and Braverman Gallery in Tel Aviv. He has won many awards, including the Minister and the Emerging Artist Prizes from the Ministry of Culture and Sports, and the Jack Nailor Award for Photography. His photographs are included in many collections, such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Casa Morandi in Italy, the Knesset and private collections in Israel and abroad.
He lives in Jaffa and works in Jerusalem
Dor Zlekha Levy is a multimedia artist who specializes in audiovisual installations, video art, and live performances. Sound is a core element in his work. His works bring to life the voices excluded from Israeli cultural discourse in a way that allows them to not only be heard, but be listened to. His recent project, Reflection, is showing now in the historical site of The Arches Pool in Ramle. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Hamidrasha Gallery, and Braverman Gallery, among others, and he has participated in numerous group exhibitions. A recent graduate of Artport Residency Program, Zlekha Levy is a recipient of the Ministry of Culture Prize for a Young Artist 2017, and was awarded the ‘Zoom 2016’ Prize.
Photo Gallery
Marine Zorea is an interaction designer and researcher exploring the critical and emergent realities of everyday technology. Guided by philosophy of technology and participatory design, her recent PhD inquiry (Kyoto Design Lab) focused on designing domestic devices in a post-human era.
Her work, spanning tangible, audible, and spatial mediums, was exhibited in Japan and internationally with collaborations including All Nippon Airways, Panasonic, and Chanel and her research was published in top venues for Human-Computer Interaction.
Marine received her B.A. in Psychology from Tel Aviv University and an MSc from Kyoto Design Lab (KIT) as a Japanese government scholar, and is an alumna of Stanford University's Design Thinking program.