Bab el Musrara, 2002, Video (04:51 min)

Bab el Musrara: The gate to Musrara.This work is part of a large project in the Musrara school, which explores the contexts of photography and architecture, between the history of the neighborhood and the changes it is undergoing.The video was shot while moving, in the space outside the walls of the old city of Jerusalem, from Damascus gate to the neighborhood of Musrara, which is located outside the old city. It was photographed using a camera obscura - a box in which a video camera was placed and that shot, in ‘night vision’ mode, the old city’s walls and the historical houses of Musrara where rich Muslims lived until they were driven away, and where Jewish immigrants from north Africa were placed and suffered from extreme poverty and lack of security. The work also documents the housing projects built in the 1960’s by a model that was used all over the world in order to solve housing problems.

Biography
Jan Tichy
Naggar School in 2002, then continued to MFA in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2005-2007) and in School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in the Sculpture Department (2007-2009) | Presented a number of Solo Exhibition in Museum and Galleries in Israel and abroad: Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Tel Aviv Museum Of Art; Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art; Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv and more | Won the Gold Award In the Council for Advancement and Support Of Education (2011); Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation (2010); America Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship (2003 and 2008); The Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry Of Culture (2007) and more.

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Halely Mazor-Bini
Born In Prague, 1974 | Lives and works in Chicago | Graduated Musrara ,The Naggar School in 2002, then continued to MFA in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (2005-2007) and in School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in the Sculpture Department (2007-2009) | Presented a number of Solo Exhibition in Museum and Galleries in Israel and abroad: Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Tel Aviv Museum Of Art; Herzliya Museum Of Contemporary Art; Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv and more | Won the Gold Award In the Council for Advancement and Support Of Education (2011); Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation (2010); America Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship (2003 and 2008); The Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry Of Culture (2007) and more.

Alon Cohen- Lifshitz
Alon Cohen-Lifshitz is an Artist and an Architect which is working in the gaps and over laps of art and architecture. Alon was Born in The Galilee and was raised in Jerusalem. His projects are interventions and distortions in inner and outer public spaces. He is working with local communities such as in the Bat-Yam international biennale of landscape urbanism in the project called "House Country Space Territory Earth"(2008) with the local Ethiopian group "Eyn Addis". His two exhibitions at the Ramat-Gan Museum for Israeli art ("Bilax" (2012) and "Dirt" (2013) ) were based on materials which were collected in the West Bank from Palestinian structures which were demolished by the Israeli army. His works were presented in Israel and abroad including Greece, Germany, Portugal and Ethiopia.

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