GUY YANAI: YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE

GALERIE LELONG presents You must change your life, an exhibition featuring new works by Guy Yanai.

January 15 - March 7, 2026

Guy Yanai paints interiors, with or without people, windows overlooking gardens, flowers in vases, portraits of young women going about their daily business... In short, he paints "The Things of Life". It is no coincidence that he gave this title to one of his past exhibitions.

Throughout his work, there is an echo of what the French New Wave brought to cinema, an everyday yet unexpected freshness and naturalness, captured on the spot and cleverly transposed into the world of painting through a subtle reduction of forms to colourful, rhythmic planes.

The clarity of his compositions and the delicate harmonic balance of the planes create an atmosphere of strangeness and suspense, like a fleeting moment of everyday life floating in the collective memory. "You Must Change Your Life", the title chosen by Guy Yanai for this exhibition, which has been specially designed for the spaces of the Avenue Matignon gallery, is taken from a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, whose elegiac tone inspired the painter.