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
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.
Dr. Miri Segal is a New Media Artist and a senior lecturer at the Fine Arts department in Bezalel.
She was the head of the Postgraduate Fine Art program at “Hamidrasha” (till 2019) and research fellow at the Advanced Reality Lab, IDC, till 2016.
Segal holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Segal had solo exhibitions at Moma PS1(New York), Lisson Gallery (London), Kamel Mennour Gallery (Paris), Tel Aviv Museum, Dvir Gallery (Tel Aviv), and Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Herzliya), among others. She has participated in group exhibitions and screenings at Tate Museum (London), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Pompidou Center (Paris), Magasin III Stockholm, Kunstmuseum Luzern (Luzern), Tokyo wonder site (Tokyo) and more. She has developed some projects in the seam between Art and Technology and science.
Segal is the recipient of the Gottesdiener Israeli Art Prize, The Minister of Culture Prize for Excellence, Dizengoff Prize, Pundig Prize, as well as several other awards.
