Wall Circles | Curator: Prof. Dor Guez | MFA Graduate Exhibition, Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv
15.5.25 – 31.5.25
Yishay Hogesta’s work engages with the Israeli urban landscape, focusing on the overlooked textures and materials that form a city’s unconscious visual language. Drawing inspiration from construction signage, torn posters, and neglected walls, Hogesta treats these incidental fragments as raw visual material.
These utilitarian moments, created out of necessity rather than design, reveal the subconscious of urban life and its inhabitants. He transforms them into paintings he refers to as ”mechanisms,“ which are defined by a deliberate tension between abstraction and representation.
Through a process rooted in photography and memory, Hogesta transposes the city’s textures, layered paint, peeling stickers, and the interplay of physically incompatible materials onto canvas. The forms and material layers that emerge in his work both reflect and disrupt the intense abstraction of contemporary life.