For the exhibition Barbarian In The Garden, Yanai presents a series of paintings and drawings that capture his alienation to memory & places, flattened and made shallow through solid color blocks that create the appearance of cut-outs. He creates a mise en scène by the activations of separate vignettes from distant memories juxtaposed with paintings of plant life and unoccupied interiors. Influenced by impressionist masters, as well as contemporary figures like Tal R or David Hockney, Yanai’s personal style mixes the aesthetics of his transcontinental childhood spent between Israel and the suburbs of Boston, where he first drew inspiration from scenes of everyday life. The banal is reduced to geometric segments where he abandons references to a tangible world in favor of an experience that is more akin to digital imagery.

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