CONTAGION PRESS

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 called CONTAGION, which began on April 30 and will run till June 30.

Spotlight on science

The New Indian Express, April 28, 2021

“Contagion presents a multiplicity of voices to better understand our collective experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Science Gallery Bengaluru'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 — and memes.

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.

Science Gallery Bengaluru’s online exhibition ‘Contagion’ explores diseases, behaviours and 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.

Science Gallery Bengaluru 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...