Shai Zakai

Shai Zakai is a photographer, artist, and ecological activist known for her artworks involving water reclamation.[1][2]

Life

Zakai was born in Tel Aviv in 1957. She studied at Hadassah College, Jerusalem and at Hebrew University.[3]

Work

Zakai's best-known piece of art is Concrete Creek, a three-year project started in 1999 that documented the cleanup of a concrete-polluted creek in the Valley of Elah. The piece includes video and photo documentary of the cleanup, as well as a sculpture created from the cleaned-up waste.[4][5][6]

Zakai founded the Israeli Forum for Ecological Art in 1999 to encourage the development of ecological art in Israel and the world.[7][8]

References
  1. Mark Cheetham (15 February 2018). Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the ’60s. Penn State University Press. pp. 237–. ISBN 978-0-271-08140-3.
  2. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; EcoArts (14 September 2007). Weather report: art and climate change. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts. ISBN 978-0-9799007-0-9.
  3. Ariʼel. Cultural and Scientific Relations Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1994.
  4. "Jewish Enviro-Artists Have the Whole World in Their Hands". The Forward. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
  5. "Artist Statement: Concrete Creek 1999 – 2002 – Shai Zakai". Green Museum. 2010.
  6. Alix W. Hopkins (2005). Groundswell: Stories of Saving Places, Finding Community. Trust for Public Land. ISBN 978-1-932807-04-2.
  7. Karin Kloosterman (7 March 2009). "Nature's Social Worker, Ecological Artist Shai Zakai".
  8. Dana Gilerman (1 April 2005). "Jean d'Arc of the Ela Valley". Haaretz.


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