Myriame Dachraoui - The Needle

Myriame Dachraoui, (b.1994) is a Tunisian painter who lives and works between Tunis, and London. 

In her studio practice, Myriame asks the audience to consider the role spaces play in their own lives, exploring the complex relationship between intimacy and surveillance. The result is a series of works that are aesthetically striking and colourful while also having further allegorical layers regarding the power of the spaces we inhabit. 

Recent exhibitions include: La mythologie des bordures curated by Kais Dhifi in Marseille, France (2025), Levitate in London, UK (2024), Boundless/Binding in Los Angeles, USA (2024).

"Lately, I've been increasingly drawn to introducing the body as a way to explore the untold stories of the women in my family. They carry their whole Tunisian identity — compelling, complex, filled with secret codes and taboo.

While space has always been the most intuitive metaphor in my work, I've recently realized how much the body holds and conveys stories. In art, representing the feminine body is never innocent: the body bleeds, changes, tells the truth.

I grew up seeing my mother constantly pinching her ear, something I associated uniquely with her. She grew up in a household that embodied our North African culture, where every gesture of a woman was subject to opinion.

My mother, meanwhile, was largely dissociative throughout her life — probably trying to leave her body for a while. Which is why I always found it quite funny that she pinched her ear, as if she were calling herself back into her body after a whole astral projection trip!"

Print Specifications

• Time-limited edition print run.
• 100% of profits go to the artist.
• The edition is available for 30 days.
• Worldwide shipping
• Includes certificate of authenticity  
• A3 size - 29 x 42 cm / 11.7" x 16.5"
• Includes a small white border for easy framing
• Archival Giclée print with an archival lifespan of up to 200 years
• Hahnemühle Photo Rag Fine Art paper
• Printed in London and Düsseldorf by theprintspace
• Carbon neutral 🌱

Delphian Gallery’s Open Call is an annual free-to-enter online competition with the intention of discovering the most captivating and challenging work by emerging and early-career artists. This year's judging was incredibly hard, but we have managed to choose works by these 36 incredibly exciting artists for the 2025 winners exhibition.

These are available as prints for a limited time only. We don't take a commission from our open-call prints, with 100% of the profits going directly to the artist.