THE MUTE SHALL SPEAK
The Mute Shall Speak is the umbrella title for a series of ongoing investigations that take place in the disused Royal Throat Nose and Ear Hospital in London which the artist - along with over one hundred others - have inhabited since 2020.
Since moving into the building, Beck has initiated and collaborated on multiple projects that relentlessly question what it means to live in a transitory space. Informed by the walls and corridors that contain him, these works blend social documentation with constructed, speculative narratives of his own making.
A recurring theme of gentrification and urban renewal weaves through each investigation. Reimagining a space marked for erasure, The Mute Shall Speak interrogates the assumptions behind perpetual redevelopment and asks: what will be lost.
Since moving into the building, Beck has initiated and collaborated on multiple projects that relentlessly question what it means to live in a transitory space. Informed by the walls and corridors that contain him, these works blend social documentation with constructed, speculative narratives of his own making.
A recurring theme of gentrification and urban renewal weaves through each investigation. Reimagining a space marked for erasure, The Mute Shall Speak interrogates the assumptions behind perpetual redevelopment and asks: what will be lost.