Miss.Tic exhibition: To life, to love

The artist: Miss.Tic 

Real name Radhia Aounallah, wife Novat, Miss.Tic was born in 1956 in Paris. Poet and visual artist, she is an essential figure in urban art. On walls and canvases, she expresses her rage, her desires and a constant struggle for freedom.  

Daughter of a Tunisian immigrant worker and a Norman mother from a peasant background, Miss.Tic spent her childhood in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, then in an HLM in Orly, in the Paris region. At the age of 10, she survived a car accident which cost the lives of her mother, her brother and her grandmother and left her with a lifelong disability in her right hand.  

At the age of 16, shortly after the death of her father, Miss.Tic left and joined an improvisation theater troupe, “Zéro de conduit”, then a street theater group, “Kumulus”. In the meantime, she escaped for two years to the west coast of the United States where she joined the punk scene, then traveled extensively in Central America and Southeast Asia.  

Back in Paris, Miss.Tic borrows her pseudonym from the character of the witch in the adventures of Scrooge and chooses the stencil as a mode of expression. At night, often solitary and anonymous for a long time, the artist shapes his legend in the city, at the risk of frequently finding himself in police custody – before definitively choosing legality in 1999.  

Miss.Tic died on May 22, 2022. She leaves behind a popular work at the heart of an art history in the process of being written which, more than ever, echoes the tremors our society is going through. 

His works have been exhibited in multiple personal and group exhibitions in France, Spain, Italy and Germany, and are the subject of numerous publications. Miss.Tic appears in several public collections, including the Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the MUCEM in Marseille and the Musée Ingres in Montauban.