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Performative TV
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O projecto “Performative TV” de Beatriz Albuquerque teve início em 2014, em New York, e explora as
margens entre performance, media, corpo e género em ambientes televisivos construídos.
Conceptualmente, a obra inspira-se nas experiências televisivas de Andy Warhol e no legado da Pop
Art, particularmente na sua relação com a cultura de massas, a celebridade e a repetição.
Nesta série em desenvolvimento, Beatriz Albuquerque realiza breves performances em cenários de
televisão, transformando espaços ficcionais em lugares de intervenção artística e explorando este
limiar. Ao inserir o seu próprio corpo nestes contextos altamente codificados, questiona de que modo
os papéis e as identidades de género são produzidos, preformados e difundidos pela sociedade.
Cada acção é documentada através de fotografia e vídeo. Um elemento central do projecto emerge
no processo de impressão: as fotografias foram impressas com tinteiros parcialmente esgotados,
originando distorções cromáticas inesperadas. Estas alterações não resultam de manipulação digital,
mas de falhas mecânicas que se tornam parte integrante da obra. As imagens apresentadas são
fotografias dessas impressões com erro.
As três imagens exibidas em MUPIs resultam de performances realizadas nos cenários das séries The
Americans, Quântico e Gossip Girl, aprofundando a reflexão sobre ficção, identidade e realidade que
vive numa margem mediada.
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.
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MUPI Gallery is a dedicated image gallery that was inaugurated in May 2015 in the foyer of the performance hall at Maus Hábitos. Since then, it has been hosting a diverse program of individual exhibitions by local and international artists in different states of emergence.
The primary objectives of Mupi Gallery are to support the creation of new works and visual experiences while promoting the artistic journey of the invited artists. It challenges them to present a new solo artwork that takes advantage of the unique characteristics and prominent display format. Additionally, it aims to showcase the national contemporary art scene by introducing the solid work of local artists as well as emerging names in the visual arts.
As a gallery dedicated to individual exhibitions, Mupi Gallery complements the artistic programming of Saco Azul/Maus Hábitos. It provides a contrast to the exhibition hall's program, which focuses on artistic encounters and dialogue through collective and crossover exhibitions.
Saco Azul invites one artist per month to occupy the backlit triptych, promoting the creation of works that utilize images as a means of contemporary artistic expression. Through production grants, it affirms or questions the role of images in the present day. Comprising three urban advertising communication Mupis provided by JcDecaux to Maus Hábitos, this gallery is not only interesting for its physical characteristics but also for its cultural impact and inherent commercial connotation. The artist is challenged to react or interact with this structure, embracing all its capabilities and connotations.