TV Soul (1994–1997) – Television Reconfigured as an Object

Beatriz Millar belongs to a generation shaped by the presence of cathode television. Broadcast images entered domestic space continuously, occupying time and perception without interruption.

In response, she enacted a gesture of removal. Television sets from the 1980s and 1990s were opened and stripped of their cathode core—the technical source of visual transmission. The back was sealed with a wooden panel, converting each device into a non-functional body.

The screen, formerly a channel of mediated reality, was redefined as a pictorial surface. Works such as 144 Television Soul reposition the apparatus from instrument of broadcast to site of intentional image-making.

Through this intervention, Millar redirects the object’s function. A device designed to control vision becomes an artwork that reconfigures the act of looking. The television ceases to transmit and instead asserts physical presence within the viewer’s space.