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Anouk Verviers develops an interdisciplinary practice rooted in community through non-systematic and intuitive research processes. Working from archives, exchange with her community, and her own lived experience, Verviers gives raw materials historically informed shapes, looking backwards at complicated legacies and forwards with self-described feminist science fiction experiments.

Often working with long-term collaborators, Verviers adopts a fluid, experimental approach that circumvents ways of being or working devised by systems of power – be they economic or medical. Her practice stands up against a unidirectional, quest-driven vision, to instead favour a cyclical and prolific intertwining of collective processes carried out in the spirit of play. In Verviers’s work, experimental and unpredictable encounters between bodies and matter generate dystopian vignettes that reveal ways through which systems of power have aimed to control marginalized bodies but also point to escape routes.

Her most recent work looks at the past and the future of female and non-binary bodies living with under-researched and under-recognized chronic pain – asking how their experience relates with the climate crisis and reveals the contradictions of the Anthropocene.

Anouk Verviers is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher living and working between London UK and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal CA. She holds a BFA from UQAM (Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal CA 2017), and an MFA from Goldsmiths (London UK 2023). In 2022, she was awarded the Chelsea Arts Club Award (UK); in 2023, the ACME Goldsmiths Award (UK); and in 2024, the Pauline-Desautels Prize (CA).

Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, residencies, performances, community-based projects, and screenings around Canada, the United-Kingdom, Italy, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Recent exhibitions and performances include MANIF- The Quebec city Biennial, Québec (2026); Images Festival, Toronto (2026); MOMENTA Contemporary Art Biennial, Montreal (2025); Art Museum of UofT, Toronto (2025); Parsec, Italy (2025); DRAC, Drummondville (2025); Kupfer, London (2024); CIRCA art actuel, Montreal (2024) and OPTICA, Montreal (2023). She has participated in residencies in Cove Park, Scotland (2025); Galerie UQO, Gatineau (2024); ACME, London (2024), and 3e Impérial, Granby (2022). In 2025, she was awarded the PRIM-Dazibao residency and commission.

She is a member and the initiator of the Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group.