Rafika Ferchichi was born in Tunis in 1978. She graduated in sculpture and is currently enrolled in the two-year specialisation course in new technologies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari.
In her research she can be described as versatile, through the systematic use of sculpture, installation and performance.
In her work, she uses a vocabulary pertaining to the female world; such as weaving, a legacy of a childhood with a carpet-weaving mother and grandmother. She decides to be part of a tacit pact where women through textile work, in a language made up of symbols, tell their stories and face the hardships of life: the carpet becomes the main theme of her work, playing with other poor and at the same time imposing materials such as asphalt she creates her formal space, her home and her diary where she incessantly notes down her intimate reflections
