MEDIA COVERAGE

“When it took shape, it became an expansive examination of the spread not only of diseases, but also of the transmission of behaviours, ideas, and emotions in culture and society.”
- The Lancet on CONTAGION

“CONTAGION represents a rare future-forward collision of evidence-based science and art.”
- The Week on CONTAGION

“The artists and curators need commendation for employing a different interactive medium for each exhibit, making great use of the virtual nature of the exhibition.”
- Down To Earth on CONTAGION

“...the exhibition’s works provide a much-needed space to make sense of a paralysed world through the interface of science and art.”
- Financial Express on CONTAGION

Cultures of Contagion

The Lancet, May 29, 2021

“When it took shape, it became an expansive examination of the spread not only of diseases, but also of the transmission of behaviours, ideas, and emotions in culture and society.”

SGB’s online exhibition explores diseases, behaviours, emotions

Hindu Metroplus, April 30, 2021

“Ranjit Kandalgaonkar’s sprawling interactive drawing — showcased at Science Gallery Bengaluru’s online exhibition, ‘Contagion’, from April 30 onwards — shows a city disrupted by a disease.”

Art and Outbreak

Financial Express, May 23, 2021

“The plague outbreak of 1896 reshaped the 20th-century map of the city of Bombay,” says Kandalgoankar, whose artwork, Drawing the Bombay Plague, is part of the Science Gallery Bengaluru’s new exhibition…”

CONTAGION: Science meets art to understand a pandemic

MoneyControl, April 24, 2021

“An online art exhibition opening April 30 at the new Science Gallery in Bengaluru will take viewers on an incisive journey through the history and science of outbreaks.”

SGB's new show studies the science of spread

Mint Lounge, May 1, 2021

“While there’s only one kind of contagion we can immediately identify in the current context, it’s not just a virus that goes viral: so do ideas, behaviour, culture, emotions…”

SGB and CPB Foundation launch photo series on ‘Contagion’

Times of India, March 22, 2021

“The exhibition will explore the phenomenon of the transmission of emotions, behaviours and diseases. It will explore how our everyday lives are filled with examples of how we catch subtle or complex emotions...”