ELEMENTS

My first exhibition for Science Gallery Bengaluru, and my MDes dissertation project at NID.

Organised with the Royal Society of Chemistry and JNCASR, this small pop-up became a template for turning a scientific framework into an experience. A public programme ran every day, from film screenings to live music.

Out of the textbook

Most people last saw the periodic table in a chemistry textbook. ELEMENTS reintroduced it as a fundamental framework for life, making the familiar unfamiliar while asking questions about our exploitative relationship with the elements of the natural world.

It was also my first time working with scientific archives, bringing together historic periodic tables from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. With JNCASR researchers, Through the Looking Glass let visitors meet the physical nature of elements both common and rare, while lettering, neon and food turned the table into a cultural object.

What it set up

ELEMENTS set the foundation for how I make exhibitions: finding unexpected intersections between scientific knowledge and everyday experience.

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