Adi Ness: Biblical Stories March 3, 2008

Photographer Adi Nes is one of Israel's most widely recognized artists, known for his provocative staged portraits and tableaux. This exhibition features 11 images from Nes's most recent body of work, 'Biblical Stories' (2003-06). In this series, he transports figures from the Old Testament to scenes depicting contemporary homelessness. He chooses moments from the original stories when the characters found themselves dispossessed or exiled and draws on recognizable visual sources as wide-ranging as Caravaggio's paintings and Dorothea Lange's photographs.