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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). 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.