Miss.Tic : à la Vie, à l’Amor

44 pages
28.5 x 22 cm 
Language: French
Paperback
Publisher: Beaux Arts Éditions
2024

The Palais des Papes in Avignon honors one of the great ladies of Street Art, Miss.Tic. The artist made her name on the walls of Paris in the early 1980s, bombarding the capital's streets with poetic or feminist phrases and sexy silhouettes with scoop necklines and ruffled miniskirts. Miss.Tic, a pseudonym borrowed from the mocking witch Miss Tick in Le Journal de Mickey, has been developing a literary, societal and philosophical project at the heart of urban life for almost 35 years. She never ceased to hammer home the same ideas: “No ideals / just high ideas”, she wrote. This exhibition captures her rage, her desires, her humor, the urgency to exist that inhabited her, her protean practice, in the city and then in the gallery, on walls, canvas, paper, silk or sheet metal...

Beaux Arts Éditions looks back at this key figure in the French stencil movement, his practice and his message, which underneath its light, sometimes provocative air, is eminently political and serious, without forgetting the poetic dimension of his work.