Our new project fabric[actions] debuts at Cultural Threads 2025 in Berlin

We're proud to announce the first public presentation of fabric[actions] — our new textile art project rooted in guerrilla textile activism — as part of Cultural Threads 2025, a week-long program celebrating immigrant fashion and accessories designers based in Berlin.

Our new project fabric[actions] debuts at Cultural Threads 2025 in Berlin.

The event will take place at PLATTE•Berlin from June 3–7, with an Opening Reception on June 3 from 17:00 to 20:00. RSVP here.

fabric[actions]

ABOUT THE WORK

fabric[actions]: ephemeral fabrications against permanent waste

A series of textile-based art interventions using discarded materials to reclaim public space and critique the violence of overproduction and disposability in the fashion industry.

This project is deeply personal. As a migrant raised in Argentina — in a time and place where scarcity demanded creativity — my relationship with materials was shaped by necessity. Before fast fashion took over, we learned to make things last. Today, I see the contrast sharply in northern contexts where waste is normalized and abundance becomes invisible.

Through fabric[actions], I return to the act of mending — not just garments, but systems. These ephemeral compositions — placed in public or created in studio using street-sourced textiles and abandoned wood — act as protests, rituals, and visual poems. They resemble textile "vomit" or oversized brush strokes: chaotic, spontaneous, urgent. Some are left on the street to be taken or interacted with, others are shown in exhibition form, but all are part of the same cycle of reclaiming material and meaning.

This is not just art. It’s a response. To fashion’s destruction. To systemic neglect. To the privilege of throwing things away.

For over a decade, with Therapy Recycle & Exorcise, I’ve worked alongside my sister to build a brand rooted in upcycling, sustainability, and DIY resistance. fabric[actions] is a continuation of that journey — an evolution into public, visual, and activist space.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mariángeles Aguirre is a Berlin-based Argentine artist, activist, and co-founder of Therapy Recycle & Exorcise. For over 13 years, she has worked at the intersection of fashion, sustainability, and DIY activism, creating bold gender-fluid statements and fostering inclusive community spaces. fabric[actions] marks a new chapter: visual art and site-specific interventions that use discarded textiles to question power, privilege, and permanence.

Follow the project: @fabric_actions

ABOUT CULTURAL THREADS 2025

Cultural Threads is a week-long celebration of Berlin-based immigrant designers — an exhibition, conversation series, and workshop platform spotlighting 12 creators who challenge fashion narratives from the margins.

Featuring: Alena Steinke, alteralter, ezggi, Five E Jewelry, Gautamma, Machtvoll, Maqu, Nastassia Volkus, ritka rojka, Späti Berlin, Studio SCHMITD, and Therapy.

Free entry, all are welcome.

CULTURAL THREADS 2025

📍 PLATTE•Berlin | Memhardstraße 8

Exhibition: June 3–7 | 13:00–19:00

Opening Reception: June 3 | 17:00–20:00.

RSVP here.

💬 Workshops & Panel

• June 4 | 16:00–19:00: Starting a Fashion Business in Germany — Justyna Gmitrzuk

• June 5 | 16:00–19:00: Made in Berlin: A Fashion Business LAB — Sepideh Ahadi

• June 6 | 17:00–19:00: Panel Talk with Izabella Chrobok (KEYi), Jenny Mauro (I.S.I. e.V.), Rula Ali, Marisa Fuentes Prado (MAQU), Samata Pattinson (BLACK PEARL)

Workshops + Talks: June 4–6.

[Register → here ]

This exhibition is made possible by support from the District Fund for Development Cooperation, coordinated by the Berlin Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises.

Special thanks to Sepideh Ahadi.

See you there — let’s talk waste, power, and possibility.

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