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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
Yehudit Sasportas is a senior professor at the department of Fine Art in the BFA and MFA Programs since 94. She works simultaneously in Berlin and Tel Aviv, with a high level of international professional commitment and involvement.
Her work is focused on site-specific installations, which include sculptures, drawings, video and sound works, and call for an intense and overwhelming sensory experience. Her installations have gone through a process of adapting and responding to the architecture of various museum spaces while forming into artworks that present a new way of reading architecture itself, as well as the wider cultural context it was created in. Her sculptural installations deal with a fascinating correspondence taking place between subconscious materials, unspoken and unseen, and the way these layers of information activate conscious areas across the surface.
Sasportas represented Israel in the 2007 Venice Biennial, and has presented more than 17 international solo exhibitions during the last decade, in venues such as: The Archeology of The Unseen, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven. Germany, 2020. RIFTS OF ABSENCE, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany, 2017. HAMAKOM, GL STRAND Kunsthalle, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016. Seven Winters, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, 2013. HASIPUR – The Story, Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neuemunster, Germany, 2010. The Clearing of the Unseen, DA2 Domus Atrium, Salamanca, Spain, 2009. The Laboratory, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, 2008. By the River, Matrix 200, the Berkley Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA, 2002. The Carpenter and the Seamstress II, Deitch Projects, New York, USA, 2001.
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Artist and lecturer in the Fine Arts Department
Sasson Graduated with honors from the Department of Fine Arts at Bezalel, and holds a master's degree from the Department of Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.
He has won several awards and scholarships, including the Clore Foundation Scholarship, the America Israel Cultural Foundation Award and a prize to encourage creativity from the Israely Ministry of Culture
Sasson has exhibited solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in galleries, public spaces and museums in Israel and around the world.
Liat Savin Ben Shoshan, Ph.D. A writer and scholar who focuses on the material, socio-political and methodological interrelations of architecture and urban space, and visual images – analogical and digital, still and moving images. She writes researches and teaches on film, politics and space, and on film as means of understanding the history and present of the built environment. She is doing her postdoctoral research on Israeli architect and urbanist Itzhak Perlstein in the 1930s-1950s at the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning (2020-2021).
She has published in academic peer reviewed journals on documentary diary film and domestic space, on architecture and its reflection in film in the mid-century eras of post war and nation building, and has edited an issue of an online journal on architecture and documentary film. Teaches at Bezalel, at the faculty of Architecture and Town Planning in the Technion, Haifa, and at Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Arts.