We are Europe sat down with Saint-Denis based French artist and dj Sentimental Rave while she was invited to perform at TodaysArt festival. Here she shares her vision on the role of the arts and artists in today's society, as well as the political dimension of club culture.
Author: Laura Cabiscol
Photo credit: Laurence Heintz
Sentimental Rave is the DJ-ing persona of Soraya Daubron, a twenty-something from “a tiny city in the middle of France”. During our brief email exchange to arrange a video call for this article, she gives me a heads-up on the fact that expressing herself through words is not her forte and that she is not sure a video call is all that good of an idea. Nonetheless, she is willing to give it a go. She seems to be someone with very clear ideas and values, a feeling I get merely through the previous online stalking I conducted as research for this feature. Maybe partly due to her being not so fond of speaking, she found a way to charge everything she does with meaning and a strong political message very early on. Asides from her career as a DJ, which she never really intended, Soraya is also a photographer, used to run a queer night and is now part of the orga...