Naomi Hadani is a visual artist whose work is deeply connected to nature and its wild, sacred aesthetics – at times ordered and predictable, and at other times untamed and surprising. Through her practice, she aims to create a sensory and emotional experience that offers viewers a new perspective on the world, guided by an open, physical, and exploratory approach to material and movement.

Hadani was born and raised in a family environment that exposed her from a young age to the worlds of art – painting, photography, and theater – which became realms of freedom and creativity. She is a graduate of the Multidisciplinary Art Department at Shenkar and has exhibited her work in exhibitions across Israel.

Her work explores visual representations of movement, the transitions between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space, and the tension between control and release. The performing body is present in her work both as a formal surface – figures, silhouettes, and gestures – and as a material trace: handprints and footprints, marks of erasure or suspension. She employs mixed techniques including drawing, painting, and erasure using sponges, rags, squeegees, and diluted pigments – tools that allow her to investigate physical action as a means of expression.

In the series Many Waters, Hadani presents large-scale paintings (approximately 190×190 cm), constructed as layers of action and exploration. The initial stage reveals a grid or repetitive pattern, serving as an orderly and secure foundation, upon which additional layers of color are intuitively applied in a process of creation, concealment, revelation, and erasure. The works balance between the reflective moment and the physical one, between the memory of the body and its real-time action.