Hagara Ben Yishai - photo collage and digital media 2016

Hagara Ben Yishai - photo collage and digital media 2016
Signed print 

unframed

45/33 cm 

In 2010, I graduated from Shenkar College in Israel, with a bachelor degree in graphic design.

In the past six years, I have been working as a graphic designer, illustrator and as a UI/UX

designer. In parallel to my daily work, I established a working routine in which I create collages,

illustrations, and graffiti works. At first, it was initiated in order to have a personally derived

work, but after a while, that routine took more of my time, I deepened my research and gave

it more significance.

In these artworks, I create a fantasy world, inspired by American pop themes such as tattoos,

fashion magazines, and graphic art. I use the shape and the content in order to blur borders

between sweet images to horrific dream-like scenarios and create surrealistic sub-worlds,

which are humorous and intellectual, make a lot of sense and at the same time not at all.

I find the abyss and dark sides of human beings fascinating, especially those that seem all right

from the outside. Those, which are hidden with a fake and sweet smile. Therefor I combine

humans and animals and make images that appear cute and inviting (such a woman mixed with

a bear head or a deer hitchhiking), yet a more careful look would show the woman has three

pairs of eyes and the deer is stuck in nowhere. Those mixtures evoke questions about gender,

sexuality, repulsiveness and culture.