The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn
The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn is an exhibition centred on a film of the same title, exploring approximate knowledge: the unreliable, poorly retained and often unverified information that shapes our understanding of the world. Through speculation, humour and hearsay, the work considers how knowledge is acquired, distorted and forgotten.
The film is accompanied by a ‘bad museum’ of drawings, digital collages, paintings, found objects and pub-drawn Post-it notes, presented without context or explanation. Together, the works embrace uncertain, misremembered and implausible knowledge about prawns, inviting broader speculation about how we know the things we know.
‘The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn’, 2023, installation view, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK.
