The workshop takes the exhibition and its artworks as a starting point to explore the concept of mental load and the often invisible forms of labour that shape our everyday lives. Participants will reflect on their own mental load and consider which of their everyday activities are understood as work and which are not.

Together, we will examine what the term work means to us, how it is defined, and how different forms of work are distributed, valued, and made visible within society. What kinds of activities are recognised as work? Who performs them, who takes responsibility for them, and which forms of labour remain unnoticed?

A central part of the workshop will be a hands-on engagement with these questions through embroidery. In the tactile act of stitching, the participants will develop and embroider their own short phrases, statements, or questions about work, care, responsibility, and mental load. The physical act of making will become a way of thinking together: slowing down, repeating, concentrating, and turning an often invisible form of labour into something tangible, visible, and shareable.