‘Would you breastfeed your own father?’ The goofy, spiky world of art-pop duo Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul

Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are developing the personal themes in their art-pop after their 2022 debut used witty dance music to address race, colonialism and online culture. On a tour of their home city of Ghent, they explain how local history and family life feed into their playful, sometimes unsettling songs and videos.

Their single “Googoo Gaga” takes inspiration from the Mammelokker, an 18th-century relief depicting a daughter breastfeeding her father, and turns the image into a comic video with possible political undertones. Adigéry and Pupul grew up in Ghent but met in 2013 through musicians David and Stephen Dewaele of Soulwax; their debut album, *Topical Dancer*, came out in 2022 and included songs about fitting in, language policing and allyship.