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
Ariel Handel is an interdisciplinary researcher. Teaches political theory and urbanism at Bezalel, Ben Gurion University and Tel Aviv University. He is the director of the Lexicon for Political Theory project and co-editor of Mafteakh-Muftah: Lexical Review of Political Thought. Ariel has published numerous journal papers and book chapters on issues of space, politics, power and violence. He is the editor-in-chief of The Political Lexicon of the Social Protest (Hakibutz Hameuchad, 2012), and co-editor of Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements (Indiana University Press, 2017).
Arch. Nilly R. Harag: Senior lecturer at the Architecture Department at Bezalel and a practising architect at Arctic Architects in Jerusalem. MArch University of Pennsylvania; BDes Bezalel Academy with honors; Recipient of research grants to Granada University (2015); TU WIEN Faculty of Architecture and Planning and the Freud Institute (1995-6); AHO Oslo School of Architecture (1987-8). Visiting lecturer at Azrieli school of Architecture, Carleton University; Architecture dep. Braunschweig University, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'architecture de Paris Malaquais and University of Nicosia. Her research and practice focus on contested areas characterized by social and political conflicts. She challenges the scope to imagine a space beyond the physical, unassailable boundaries of everyday life by tracing liminal spaces identified between the various fields of architecture. She looks at reality through liminal lenses, to make it possible to turn permanent situations into a material-subject for change, from an open space to sensory experience, analytical thinking and a complete and visible architectural creation.
