Synopsis

Anouk Verviers’s exhibition presents the first two chapters of a dystopian trilogy that explores chronic pain as experienced by women and non-binary people. In the first video, performers erect a cob column that symbolizes their mutual support for one another as they collectively rewrite the story of their exhaustion. The second evokes four thousand years of history through a geological metaphor for endometriosis. Throughout the series, bodies dealing with pain merge with their treatment and transform into feminist cyborgs endowed with the power to act not only on their pain but, more importantly, with it.

Synopsis

The video installation Speculative Creatures examines the place of intuition, prediction and speculation in the worlds of finance, spirituality and machine learning. The evolving narrative structure of the work is generated by a probability tool based on Markov chains. Using computer code, the order of the installation’s multiple audio sequences differs from time to time, generating constantly renewed associations of ideas.