Dhekrayet Ben Abdelkader is a plastician artist and textile designer from Tunisia. Her most used technique is the pen and ink drawing: with her works she represents different aspects of her most intimate contradictions and internal conflicts. Her work is visceral, cathartic, and meticulous.
She approaches her drawings like embroidery, lace to express fragility.
In her words: “Telling my internal conflicts and showing aspects of my intimacy”.
From his drawings (made in fine-tipped pen), explode interior decorations mingle with self-portraits where viscera, guts, bones, and other anatomical elements become ornamentations, and they emanate feelings of serenity and peace. Yet these graphic manifestations come to her in moments of anguish that she tries to coax into other becoming.