On the website of MOMENTA

On the website of Dazibao

The exhibition was mentioned as one of 5 contributions not to be missed in the Biennale in La Presse (in French)

Anouk Verviers’s art practice encompasses videos, performances, sound works, and installations, often created with long-term collaborators. Together, they adopt a fluid, experimental approach that circumvents ways of being or working devised by systems of power—be they artistic, economic, or medical.

Verviers presents the first and second chapter of a dystopian trilogy in which she examines chronic pain experienced by women and non-binary people. In the first video, performers build columns out of cob, referring to architectures of power, but that also represents the mutual support they give each other as they rewrite the story of their exhaustion. The narrative is punctuated by, among other things, a fictional conversation between an anonymous character and the medical-industrial complex. In the second video collage illustrating a four-thousand- year-old story, rockslides act as metaphors for endometriosis. In Verviers’s work, those dealing with pain have merged with their treatment and transformed themselves into cyborg feminists who have the power to act not only on their pain but, more importantly, with it.

Exhibition produced in partnership with Dazibao. The artist received support from the PRIM-Dazibao production-distribution residency.

The exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

ARTWORKS

The world was always full of us (2025) Video 4K with surround sound 5.1. 29 min.

We gather at dawn (I have discharged you from our care) (2024) Video HD with surround sound 5.1. 22 min.

A community of bodies hosting migrating cells (2025) Aluminum, laboratory hooks, poplar plywood, batting, vapour barrier, nylon thread. Dimensions variables.

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