Lala Kolopi

The Portrait of Drag Queen Lala Kolopi and Giorgos, the person behind her. A journey into the dazzling world of drag shows, through Giorgos’ story of his path from discovering the persona to her rise as a symbol of freedom, self-expression, and creativity.

Avant-Drag! paints portraits of ten drag artists of varying gender expressions and sexualities who take to the streets of Athens to query, problematise and (yes, please!) undermine social strictures. Employing wildly imagined personas – like riot housewives and Albanian turbo-folk girls – who perform acts as revolutionary as praising abortion and as charming as drawing childish pictures, these artists call for social justice by taking aim at conservatism, patriarchy, patriotism, racism and sexism.