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Exhaustion of the female and non-binary body as a space for kinship, care, and resistance.
Cob building, chronic pain and illness, science-fiction.


Sponsored by the Anthropocene I, II, and III (2023-24) Aluminium, watercolour, UV print, paper, archival sleeves

Level Again (2023) Performance.

Building, destroying, and rebuilding cob columns as high as our bodies (2023) Ongoing performance and video installation

Cybernetic hands playing in the mud (a community of bodies hosting migrating cells) (2023) Video essay. Perfect loop.

Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show (2023) Exhibition views. Group show. Goldsmiths, London UK
Exhibition text by Yueh-Ning Lee

Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group (2022 - ongoing) Research. London UK

Obscured histories of women’s making of butter and use of community ovens within a profit-driven patriarchal and colonial framework. Commons, land, knowledge.


Replace narratives with muscle memory (2024) Performance. CIRCA Art Actuel, Montréal CA

Qu’est-ce qu’on peut construire sur un sol en mouvance (2023) Exhibition views. Solo show. OPTICA, Montreal CA
Exhibition text by Véronique Leblanc

Replace narratives with muscle memory (2022) Performance with sound for headphones. 3e Impérial, Granby CA

Deptford X. Present Tense (2022) Exhibition views. Group show. Goldsmiths, London UK

Future_After (2022) Exhibition views. Group show. Hypha Studios, London UK

Rythm, Sacrifices, Selfessness, Capitalism, Legitimacy, Vulnerability, Fight, Common enemy, Dissensus (2021-22) Adobe bricks, mold

Barrater les sols pierreux (Churning the Rocky Soils) (2020-22) Collaborative research on commons. Feminist brick-making and communal ovens

MOVING-IMAGE WORKS

Building and destroying a cob column as high as my body (that our limbs stop hurting long enough to learn how to walk level again) (2023) Video HD

Aligning all the dried beans of a packet between my grandmother's birthplace and the old bakery (2023) Performance for the camera. Video HD

What can you build on land that keeps moving (2022) Video. 4k with sound

You gave me your beans cooking pot (letter to my grand-mother) (2022) Video. 4k with sound


Interlocutors are spread around the perimeter of the drawing and every interaction is represented by a line.
Education, institutions, power dynamics, pedagogy.


Si deux consonnes forment un angle aigu, il suffit de l'arrondir légèrement (2023-25) Commissioned by Patrice Loubier. Galerie UQO, Gatineau CA

Au milieu des bureaux empilés (2023) Exhibition views. Solo show. Vaste et Vague, Carleton CA

Si on ne peut, on continuera de construire des adultes (2019-2023) Video essay and performance for the camera

Prôner le chaos (Advocating for chaos) (2021) Commission for Vie des Arts magazine

Educational Institute of Conversational Aesthetics (IPEC) (2020) Fictional research institute. Web art and python programming

Au milieu des bureaux empiles (2019) Exhibition views. Solo show. Regart Art Actuel, Levis CA
Review by Patrice Loubier in Espace Magazine

Arrows and Other Traps (2019) Exhibition views. Group show. Dogo Residenz fur Neue Kunst, Lichtensteig CH

Au milieu des bureaux empiles (In Between Desks) (2018 - Ongoing) Socially Engaged Art project. Open dirscursive spaces within high schools and drawings of conversations.

RESEARCH

Research in Art Education (REA) Journal: Special issue on Critical artistic research as practices of care (2021) Research article. Aalto University, Espoo FI

Colloque CRITS: Rapports de pouvoir dans les organisations (2021) Panel discussion. St-Paul University, Ottawa CA


Le Sabord Magazine Cover and portfolio. N127 Sororité, summer 2024.

Practicing Pain: Anouk Verviers' Doing and Undoing by Didier Morelli for Vie des Arts Magazine. N273, Winter 2024.

Goldsmiths Student feature Video interview leading up to Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, summer 2023.

Anouk Verviers, Au milieu des bureaux empilés (in French) by Patrice Loubier for Espace Magazine. N125, Spring–Summer 2020.


Se mettre a couvert (Taking Cover) (2017) Self-portraits workshops with child survivors of domestic abuse

Viens prendre le the (Let's Have Tea) (2016-17) Weekly tea tasting workshops for students to gather and exchange about how they felt at school

Poser le temps sur l'horizon (Laying Time on the Horizon) (2017) Stations of contemplation installed in the public space. Performative woodworking

Jaser d'utopie (Talking about Utopia) (2017) Conversations bringing together passers-by in the streets of Montreal to exchange about utopia

Jaser d'art (Talking about art) (2015-17) Conversations set up in various public spaces about the role of art

Dialogues (2015) Artist book. Prints.

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