Hagit Barkai is a visual artist and a Peace Activation facilitator whose work explores the body as a site of vulnerability, resistance, and connection. She works primarily in painting, alongside drawing, printmaking, and photo-performance directing. Her art explores the awkwardness of the body as it moves through social expectations, layering form and formlessness to reveal the body’s ambivalence. The figures she paints embody both comfort and discomfort, acceptance and resistance, safeguarding the freedom to change. Exploring art as a placeholder for peacebuilding, she uses her artistic practice as a bridge across divides and an invitation to dialogue where words fall short.