Dayanand Nagaraju’s ‘Kaggantu’ is at once a literal reading of entanglement and a representation of its mysteriousness.
| Photo Credit: Samriddhi Nanda/Special arrangement
If you enter Science Gallery Bengaluru one of these weekends, you should find Mr. Tomkins to your right. At first glance, he might appear asleep — or dead. But look at him from a different angle, and you might catch him in the middle of a prance.
‘Mr. Tomkins meets Schrödinger’ is one of the 34 exhibits at the Gallery’s latest programme, simply called ‘QUANTUM’.
Set up by The Hashtag# Collective, comprising artists Parvathi Nayar, Saira Biju, Abin Chaudhuri, Biju Kuriakose, and Sindhura V.S., ‘Mr. Tomkins’ depicts — somewhat literally — Erwin Schrödinger’s famous 1935 thought experiment called Schrödinger’s cat. The Austrian scientist came up with the thought experiment to contemplate a quantum phenomenon called superposition, where a physical system can exist in a combination of multiple possible states at the same time.
Published – November 05, 2026 07:30 am IST
