Defne Hadiş (2001) was born in Istanbul. In 2019, she won the Turkish Philosophy Olympiad and was selected to represent Turkey in the international Olympiad. At the International Philosophy Olympiad in Rome, she competed in the field of aesthetics and received an honorary award. In the same year, she was accepted by the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She graduated cum laude from NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan in 2022, receiving top marks for her thesis on Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulation. Her artistic practice revolves around modes of representation, historical visual narratives, and the interconnectedness of nature, humanity, and technology.Her black-and-white drawings, inspired by the engraving aesthetics of the Industrial Revolution, reimagine the human-machine relationship within a pastoral mise-en-scène. These works bring together the mechanical order of the past and the organic intricacies of the natural world, offering a perspective that is both nostalgic and critically reflective. In contrast, her colorful oil paintings reconstruct nature through monumental plants, organic forms, and the naked human body. These compositions center on themes of regeneration, destruction, and transformation, proposing a new visual language that reinterprets the still life tradition.