For 10 years, Waag has researched textiles and natural dye-making from within her TextileLab, located at the heart of the city of Amsterdam. With the exhibition Chromatic Relations during GLUE Amsterdam 2025, Waag highlights this legacy, showcasing the urban environment as potential source for natural colors.
Exhibition opening hours: 12:00 - 17:00 hrs, 18 till 28 September.
About the exhibition Chromatic Relations
The urban environment is not the first place that comes to mind when we think of gathering resources for natural colours and materials - yet it's a very abundant one that holds many opportunities. Cities are ecologies—interwoven with living matter, layered histories and circular possibilities.
Through natural dye-making, we reconnect with ecological cycles throughout the urban landscape, transforming our perception of the city from a concrete jungle into a living ecosystem. It teaches us to attend to plants and to revaluate and repurpose overlooked natural resources. It draws our attention to the ecologies that we are part of and reveals the colorful potential that grows everywhere around us – right under our feet.
More information about the exhibition Chromatic Relations
The exhibition will be officially opened on Thursday September 18
Het Parool published an article about Waag Futurelab's research into local and sustainable textile production, entitled “Kleding van eigen, stadse bodem" ('Clothing from our own urban soil'). Read the article.
