Miss.Tic faded like her graffiti, stencil silhouette of a sexy brunette embellished with delicious little slogans like “you have to see life as a farce”. All the Parisians who like to stroll in the streets of Paris, rather to the east of the capital, have necessarily observed, appreciated one day on the walls of buildings, houses or storefronts of shops the “graffs” of Miss.Tic.
Street art is ephemeral, Miss.Tic knew it more than the others. Born Radhia Novat, who became a graffiti artist, painter and poet testifies in our podcast.
Miss.Tic’s first graffiti, her first stencil or immodest attack took place in the early 80s opposite 5 rue Saint Benoît, where Marguerite Duras lives. As a tribute, Miss.Tic draws the writer’s face and writes on the wall “make a word the beautiful lover of a sentence”.
The cities of the 80s are not yet accustomed to Street-art, the cops verbalize at every end of the streets, hence for Miss.Tic serious problems with the established order.
Over time, Miss.Tic, the rebel, the kid room who writes on the walls becomes wiser, now she asks the owner of the facades for permission to draw with a stencil. Miss.Tic becomes famousshe signed a line of women’s lingerie, she designed postage stamps and movie posters for Claude Chabrol.
Miss.Tic passed away at the age of 66. New layers of paint, grey, rain, pollution and even vegetated Paris will erase Miss.Tic’s drawings and messages. Not fooled, the artist tagged a last slogan “That’s life, it’s nothing, it will pass”.