Maegan Beck is an art writer and independent researcher based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal.

I write across contemporary art, queer visual culture, archival practice, and, more recently, sound. I'm drawn to the small, formal details of a work——gesture, the material trace, the living archive. Guided by phenomenology, feminist materialism, and sound studies, my attention settles on what art does in the body before it becomes legible as idea.

Increasingly, that attention turns toward curation, where the question is always one of access——how encounter is composed, and for whom, physically and digitally. My commitment is to what falls out of view at speed, and to what becomes visible, or audible, only when we slow down enough to receive it.