EP01 - Gwendal, the sparkly creature Bouquet Garni

Gwendal, aka Poubelle de Table (and most recently known as Graw), is a contemporary dancer, artist, drag performer and creature from Toulouse in the South of France.

We met in Amsterdam during the Superball, a battle of drag houses. I was mesmerised by their look. Shaved head and face completely covered with silver glitters, pieces of jewellery elegantly positioned on their eyes and skull, bright shiny pink lipstick, nails longer than scissors blades clawing their hand around their drink. We discussed for a long time that night. I decided to invite them the next day to sit in my living room with a bottle of Prosecco and a bowl of strawberries and ask them what it is like to be a queer artist nowadays, the complexity of choosing their artist’s name, their inspirations… They also revealed about their experience as a performer, their public and online discrimination and shared the connection they make between queer, trees and dance !

I hope you will enjoy meeting Gwendal as much as I did. Let me know by rating / commenting.

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