Le Labo, studio #277, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
Sunday April 12 2026, 1pm – 2pm
In partnership with the Images Festival
Le Labo is thrilled to welcome multidisciplinary artist Anouk Verviers for an exclusive performance titled “we felt our cells tumble, cluster, and creep.” Presented in partnership with the Images Festival, this event marks a significant meeting between our two artistic communities.
An Exploration of Care and Resistance
Echoing her recent film The world was always full of us, Anouk Verviers presents a new performance work that delves into the experiences of female and non-binary bodies. The artist explores the concept of exhaustion, not as an endpoint, but as a starting point to imagine new practices of care, kinship, and resistance.
Through an experimental and collaborative approach, Anouk Verviers challenges established power systems and traditional medical narratives, particularly surrounding endometriosis. Her practice, which oscillates between film, performance, and installation, invites the audience to feel a profound solidarity and to envision futures where pain is transformed into collective strength.
The 30-minute performance will be followed by a conversation with the artist, offering the public an opportunity to delve deeper into the work’s themes and discuss the engaged creative processes involved.
Practical Information
- Admission: Tickets via Images Festival. Free admission for members of Le Labo (ask us for the promo code: info@lelabo.ca).
Join us for this unique moment of artistic sharing and collective reflection in the heart of Toronto’s spring.
Anouk Verviers
Anouk Verviers is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher whose practice is socially and ecologically engaged. Based between Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal and London (UK), she develops collaborative projects in the form of films, videos, performances, and installations. Her work is distinguished by a fluid approach that questions norms imposed by power systems, always seeking to create spaces for dialogue and transformation.
Images Festival
Images Festival is a non-profit, artist-led festival dedicated to experimental film, media arts, contemporary art, and the spaces in which these forms coexist. Images’ programming interrogates the conditions of contemporary moving image culture, and provides a platform for artists, filmmakers, curators, and other practitioners to engage with experimental practices in both form and content. It’s vision: To cultivate a sustainable experimental moving image culture in Tkáron:to/Toronto and our global communities.