The Mind’s Wardrobe
A performative sessions rooted in psychoanalytic readings of fairy tales, exploring what happens when stories are unpacked collectively through material and sensory engagement.
About
The Wardrop’s Mind is a series of performative sessions rooted in psychoanalytic readings of fairy tales, exploring what emerges when stories are collectively unpacked through material and sensory engagement.
Rather than approaching these narratives as fixed or distant, the sessions invite participants to enter them as living structures—full of symbols, tensions, and hidden meanings that continue to shape how we understand ourselves and the world.
Through shared encounters, participants engage with materials, textures, and gestures that open new ways of sensing and interpreting familiar tales. Clothing, objects, and fragments become tools for reflection, allowing unconscious associations and personal resonances to surface.
The focus is not on making, but on experiencing—on noticing how stories unfold differently when held together in a collective space. The sessions offer a gentle yet attentive environment to explore how the symbolic language of fairy tales connects to contemporary life, embodiment, and the ways we relate to identity, transformation, and belonging.
Join a session
The Mind’s Wardrobe unfolds in small group sessions in the artist’s studio.
Each session is a participatory performance, where participants enter a story and take part in its unfolding through collective making.
No previous experience is needed — only a willingness to engage with materials, stories, and shared processes.
Sessions last approximately 2.5 hours.
In April, we begin a new season of performative sessions at The Mind’s Wardrobe. This time, the sessions are inspired by the story Sealskin—a narrative that moves between two worlds. In this story, dressing and undressing make such movement possible.
Dressing and undressing are not opposites—they are movements between states of being. The question is not whether we dress or undress, but which skin we are in, and whether it is truly ours.
Join the next session
Participation is limited.
A contribution is required to take part, based on a sliding scale. Details are shared upon request.
To receive upcoming dates and reserve a place, please get in touch at mail@marijasujica.nl
The work can also be commissioned by institutions, festivals, and private hosts.
Looking forward to seeing you!