Anouk Verviers’ work investigates systems of power through non-systemic processes: processes that are unstable, adaptable, and open to leave
space for experimentation, collaboration, and embodied ways of understanding. Using sound, woodwork, ceramic, drawing, archival and everyday
materials, bodies, and cameras, she creates performances, installations, videos, sound pieces, and sculptures. Her work aims to embrace
complexity and multiplicity, revealing entanglements between ourselves, others, and the matter around us.
Her most recent work explores issues of the exhaustion of the female and non-binary body and aims to prefigure possible practices of care and
resistance. This research is rooted in her experience of the chronic pain she lives with. Her previous corpus was researching the obscured
history of women’s making of butter in Canada and how this practice was taken over by a profit-driven patriarchal and colonial framework
established through a campaign against women's knowledge.
Anouk Verviers is an artist, researcher, and educator working between London UK and Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang/Montreal CA. She holds an MFA from
Goldsmiths in London UK (2023) and a BFA from UQAM (2017). Her work has been presented in artist residencies, exhibitions and community
projects in Canada, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In 2023, she received the ACME Goldsmiths MFA Award for her graduation exhibition.
She is a researcher at CRITS, St-Paul University (Ottawa, CA) and initiated, in 2022, the Exhausted Hybrid Feminist Species Reading Group
(London, UK).