In Marseille, a work exhibited at the Mucem tells the story of the life of the street artist Miss. Tic
The street artist Miss. Tic died on May 22 at the age of 66. Known for her silhouettes of women accompanied by quotes stencilled on the walls of Paris, Miss. Tic had seen one of his vandal creations end his life at the Mucem in Marseille.
It was on a shed door that she had painted the type of punchline that characterized her work: “Prevented from storytelling, I make stories”. This cabanon door was found by the Mucem museum somewhat by chance. Painted in 2004 or 2005 with a stencil, this graffiti was discovered eight years later by a team from the Marseilles museum who had met the artist. The latter had donated her shed door, because the shack was threatened with destruction.
“We naturally keep works, but we also keep all the cultural elements and the tools that are part of them. For us, it’s important to show the process of the stencil artist, the way she cut it with a cutter”analyzes Hélia Paukner, contemporary art curator at the Mucem.
According to the curator, Miss. Tic told the story of women’s lives and his own life through his works. “She paints women and she also paints herself. Her works are full of illusions around her own journey, her biography, her experience. She is a woman in a still quite strongly masculine street art environment. today, especially in vandal graffiti”to chase Helia Paukner.
Coming from an immigrant family, Miss. Tic grew up in Orly. She first plastered her stencils on the walls of Parisian buildings. She has always loved drawing and poetry as she explained to AFP in 2011. “I said to myself: ‘First I am going to write poems’. Then: ‘You need images with the poems’. I started with self-portraits, then I continued towards the other women”.
His poetic graffiti can now be found almost everywhere and it is a fine tribute to him at the Mucem in Marseille.