ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Laure Drogoul and THE CLOSET (Uniform City)
- Le Mondo
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Running through April 19, 2025, Le Mondo is proud to present Laure Drogoul's THE CLOSET (Uniform City), a site-specific installation that explores the interplay between cultural identity and clothing.
The piece will be on view at Le Mondo (406 N Howard St, Baltimore) during events and by appointment with the artist.
You can learn more about the exhibition and its upcoming events below!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Opening Reception
Friday, April 4 | 7PM - 10PM
Quilting Demonstration: 7PM
Performances: 8PM
Gallery Hours & Activation
Saturday, April 5 | 1PM - 4PM
Saturday, April 12 | 7:30PM
Free performances featuring Renée Rendine, Laure Drogoul, and Liz Downing
Darning & Quilting Workshops
Free workshops led by Courtney Acosta and Marshall Moore
Saturday, April 12 | 5PM - 7PM More Info & Sign-UpsÂ
Saturday, April 19 | 3PM - 5PM
Solar Powered Generator in The Closet
An epic night of multidisciplinary performances featuring BOYSCOUTMARIE, We Wiggle Dolls, Cookie Tongue, Laure Drogoul, Liz Downing, and Carrie Fucile.
Saturday, April 19 | 8PM
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
What we wear defines our sense of self, our relation to the world around us, and its relation to us. Form and function intertwined with social role and station. THE CLOSET (Uniform City) considers how our identities are sculpted through rituals that are connected to domesticity and fashion. The work also addresses the environmental impact of the textile waste that has piled up over many decades during the rise of ready-made and fast fashion.Â
THE CLOSET (Uniform City) takes shape at Le Mondo, our arts home which was once the site of Uniform City, a discount uniform store running for over fifty years. Central to the project will be this immersive labyrinthine installation of hundreds of post-consumer garments collected from multiple communities. The garments span different times and types—from sportswear and military uniforms to medical and theatrical clothing—each with its own story to tell.
From cradle to grave, we are swaddled in cloth nearly every day of our lives. THE CLOSET (Uniform City) opens a dialog about what we wear, how it defines us, and the role clothing plays in transforming our world’s present and future.
ABOUT LAURE DROGOUL
Laure Drogoul is an interdisciplinary artist, olfactory spelunker, and cobbler of situations who lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Laure works with a wide range of media including sculpture, performance, and events that invite the viewer to be an active participant.
She has exhibited and performed widely, including The International House of Japan in Tokyo, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, PS122 and The Center for Architecture in New York as well as many street corners, vacant lots, alleys, and underutilized urban spaces. She has received Maryland State Artist Awards and a Franklin Furnace Award for performance art and has been a recipient of a US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship. In 2006 Ms. Drogoul was honored with Baltimore’s Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize.
Laure Drogoul founded The 14Karat Cabaret, a performance project located at Maryland Art Place and was the co-organizer and curator of the Transmodern Festival, which is a festival of provocative works by cultural experimenters from Baltimore and beyond.
