The project “Performative TV” by Beatriz Albuquerque began in 2014 in New York and explores the intersection of performance, media, body, and gender within constructed television environments.

Conceptually, the work draws inspiration from the television experiments of Andy Warhol and the legacy of Pop Art, particularly their engagement with mass media, celebrity culture, and repetition.

In this ongoing series, Beatriz Albuquerque stages short performances inside television set spaces, transforming fictional narrative scenarios into sites of embodied artistic intervention. By inserting her own body into these highly coded environments, she questions how gender roles and identities are produced, performed, and circulated through pop culture.

Each action is documented through photography and video. A key element of the project emerges during the printing process: the photographs were printed with depleted ink cartridges, generating unexpected color distortions and chromatic shifts. These altered tones are not digitally manipulated but are mechanical accidents that become integral to the work. The exhibited images are photographs of these misprinted prints.

The three MUPI images derive from performances staged on the sets of The Americans, Quântico, and Gossip Girl, further blurring fiction, identity, and mediated reality.