Calorie, a year-long exhibit on the Science Gallery Bengaluru,questions our relationship with meals

In the 1820s, French scientist Nicolas Clément launched the time period calorie. In the 2 centuries since, human beings’ and society’s relationship with meals has modified drastically. Today the research of meals is a posh topic that includes not solely vitamin and agriculture, but additionally has geopolitics, know-how, local weather change, caste and gender beneath its umbrella.

Science Gallery Bengaluru unveils a year-long exhibition titled Calorie, that makes use of the lens of artwork to have interaction and mirror on these topics. Who grows your meals? Who will get to eat it? What does it do to your physique? And, how a lot waste does it create? All these dialogues and extra are being mentioned by this exhibition, that’s supported by the Gates Foundation, British Council and MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions.

“We have a powerful cultural relationship to meals, and meals can also be an object of scientific analysis,” says Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey, the founding director of the Science Gallery Bengaluru. “Discussions about meals have gained extra forex in each area of our life these days. Topics such because the science behind cooking, vitamin, Indian eating regimen fads, and so forth. As an knowledgeable citizen, whom do I take critically?” The exhibition is an invite to look past what’s on our plate and to interrogate the methods, values, and decisions that feed us.

Some highlights from the exhibition

Spread throughout two flooring of the gallery, Calorie sees works by each worldwide and Indian artists. Parag Kashinath Tandel’s sensory set up, Food as an Archaeological Site: How to prepare dinner Bombay Duck seems on the fish, and the Koli fishing group of Mumbai, its migration patterns and air pollution. The Bombay duck or Bombil fish holds relevance to the area’s historical past. The artist makes use of supplies like fishing gear, silicon rubber and dental plaster to create the work.

Rajyashri Goody’s Don’t Lick It All Up seems on the relationship between meals and caste. Using ceramics the artist recreates meals, corresponding to rice, meat and even earth as meals , that’s scavenged or begged for. It is accompanied by Omprakash Valmiki’s ebook Joothan, and recipes extracted from Dalit memoirs.

Orijit Sen’s Mapping Mapusa Market, is an interactive set up about Goa’s historic Mapusa Market. The Goa-based artist showcases the colourful market by the combined media work. Visitors can decide up questions and puzzles, the solutions to that are within the set up. The Museum of Edible Earth is a challenge by artist titled Masharu. It seems on the communities across the globe who eat clay or soil. The exhibit has bottles of assorted clay varieties that folks eat. In Ragi.web artist Surekha explores how Bengaluru’s ragi-growing land has now been transformed to a tech capital. She takes discarded keyboards and installs ragi vegetation in them.

Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, who’s a board member of the gallery says, “Calorie urges us to rethink how we use assets, develop crops, and adapt to local weather change. Like our previous work on carbon, it’s an area for younger minds and specialists to query, experiment, and form concepts that may affect coverage. With the upcoming meals lab, we goal to spark curiosity, encourage innovation, and drive a more healthy, extra sustainable future.”

In the approaching yr, Calorie will even see meals festivals, movies screenings, workshops and lectures.

The Calorie exhibition will run from August 2025 to July 2026. Entry free, Wednesday to Sunday, 10 AM to six PM. At Bellary Road, Ganganagar. For extra particulars, go to bengaluru.sciencegallery.com