Through embodied, poetic, and collaborative processes, Verviers’ work investigates systems of power through an intersectional feminist lens
that acknowledges histories of dispossession. She relies on non-systemic processes - processes that are unstable, adaptable, and open to leave
space for experimentation, collaboration, and embodied ways of understanding. Working with bodies, wood, clay, archives, and everyday materials, she creates installations,
sculptures, videos, sound pieces, and performances. Her interdisciplinary practice aims to reveal entanglements between ourselves, others,
and the matter around us.
Verviers’ most recent work explores issues of the exhaustion of female and non-binary bodies, and aims to prefigure possible practices of care,
kinship, and resistance. This research is rooted in her experience of the chronic pain she lives with. Her previous corpus was researching the
invisibilised history of women’s making of butter in Quebec and Canada, and its entanglement with a patriarchal and colonial framework.
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) during which she was awarded the FRQSC full scholarship
(2021), the Chelsea Arts Club Award (2022), the Goldsmiths Junior Fellowship (2023), and the ACME Goldsmiths Award (2023).
Her work has been
shown in solo and group exhibitions, residencies, performances, community-based projects, and screenings around Canada, the United-Kingdom,
and Switzerland. In 2024, she was awarded the Pauline-Desautels Prize (CA) and she is an artist-in-residence with ACME (UK). She is a member
and the initiator of the Exhausted Feminist Hybrid Species reading group, and artist-researcher at the Research Center on Social Innovation
and Transformation (CRITS) (Odawa/Ottawa CA).