I knew that I was watching television, 2025
Graphite, Fabriano paper, corflute, foam board, washi tape, acrylic, pine wood frames, sculptural objects
261.5 x 285 x 310cm
Image Credit Andrew Curtis
Chord, 2025, Archival inkjet print
146 x 109cm
Ed. of 3 (+2 AP)
Grounded Stage, 2025, Archival inkjet print
124 x 146cm
Ed. of 3 (+2 AP)
I knew that I was watching television, Installation view, 2025
Image Credit Andrew Curtis
I knew that I was watching television is an openly constructed set that renders the compositional logic of a two-dimensional collage in three-dimensional form. Drawing together Cartesian graphics, Renaissance architectural schematics and the geometric figuration of Bauhaus theatre, Cue has produced a perspectivally distorted environment that oscillates between constructed image and activated stage, alongside a series of photographic prints.
Fabricated from makeshift materials such as corflute, foam board and tape, the set serves as a backdrop for neo-Classical props, cuboid figures and gridded systems that are presented as fragmentary and fallible constructions. Wooden frames and provisional fixings are deliberately left exposed, revealing the physical construction involved in the creation of this environment. The viewer becomes implicated in this immersive mise-en-scène that refuses spatial coherence. Instead, the work foregrounds the disjuncture between pictorial devices predicated on rigid, mathematical schemas—grids, vanishing points, orthogonals—and embodied perception.
The work engages with canonical representational systems that have historically sought to rationalise space and the body through geometric abstraction and perspectival order. Cue’s material intervention is a means of re-presenting pictorial contrivances as intentionally flawed constructions rather than as realistic representations. I knew that I was watching television unravels the logic of perspectival space, and in doing so aims to forward rational modalities of seeing as contingent and absurd.