بتسلئيل Bezalel בצלאל أكاديمية الفنون Academy of אקדמיה والتصميم Arts and Design לאמנות ועיצוב القدس ירושלים

Album Group Exhibition | Department of Photography | 16.4-1.5/2019

Curators: David Adika + Yael Efrati + Rami Maymon

Artists: David Adika + Boaz Aharonovitch + Ilit Azoulay + Sharon Balaban + Maya Baran + Sharon Bareket + Michal Baror + Yael Bartana + Lihi Binyamin + Adi Branda + Elinor Carucci + Dror Daum + Carmi Dror + Yael Efrati + Asaf Elkalai + Nir Evron + Sasha Flit + Itamar Freed + Uri Gershuni + Dor Guez + Galia Gur Zeev + Or Harpaz + Asaf Hinden + Miki Kartsman + Tomer Kep + Shai Ignatz + Maxim Kharitonov + Ruven Kuperman + Ora Lev + Ella Littwitz + Rami Maymon + Guy On + Shabtai Pinchevsky + Barak Rubin + Noa Sadka + Gustavo Sagorsky + Hadas Satt + Efrat Shalem + Simcha Shirman + Eytan Shouker + Etty Shwartz + Orit Siman Tov + Eli Singalovski + Yanai Toister + Vera Vladimirsky + Sharon Yaari + Rona Yefman + Nevet Yitzhak + Noa Zait

The exhibition Album presents works by photographers who are teachers and alumni of the Department of Photography at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in recent decades.

An album begins with an empty space. A white shape, devoid of content, to be filled with stamps, postcards, letters, or photographs.1 A book-like object that stores a collection of associations, relationships, stories.

Albums link people with people and people with the objects in their lives. They are at the center of the personal story: about family, about national identity, about place, love, and traumas. Photo albums are social objects whose history is embroiled in the developments of the photographic medium itself. They are possible interpretations, they can teach us to identify new approaches in photography or new aspects in the society and the place in which they were made. They point to the existential aspect of photography and can recount its history while understanding the meanings of photography – materially and socially.2

1 Originating in the 17th century, the word “album” is derived from the Latin “albus,” meaning white. Retrieved on 30.3.2019 from https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/album 2 Mette Sandbye, Looking at the family photo album: a resumed theoretical discussion of why and how, Published online: 17 Dec 2014. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/jac.v6.25419 We could compare the formation and activity of the department to the creation of an album, which slowly takes shape over years of collecting and compiling, additions and deletions, multiple edits, through ongoing change, study, and scholarship; as a body of knowledge passed on from generation to generation, from lecturers to students, some of whom eventually take their place as the next generation of teachers in the department and continue to expand the tapestry of associations between the artists and the works.

Opening event will include readings from Noa Sadka’s book Photographic Truth is Natural Truth — Chronicles of a Photography Department.3

for more information: David Adika: [email protected] Braverman Gallery: [email protected]

3 “The book Photographic Truth is Natural Truth — Chronicles of a Photography Department sets out to vividly and concretely bring to life the chronicles of photography in through the dynamics of the teaching situation and the emerging correlation between academization and the perception of the discipline as ‘art,’ between how photography is taught and how it is perceived over the years – teaching as the realization of consciousness, as a practice of perception.” Noa Sadka, Photographic Truth is Natural Truth — Chronicles of a Photography Department, : Resling, 2018, pg. 359 (in Hebrew).

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