Doomscrolling: the exhibition that visualises our appetite for bad news

Artists Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston have tried to make sense of a tumultuous time, highlighting everything from the pandemic to the White House insurrectionWhen then US president Donald Trump caught the coronavirus, Zorawar Sidhu found himself refreshing his phone for updates. Waiting anxiously for the 2020 presidential election result, he was glued to flashing screen again.“My appetite for news had been increased,” the 36-year-old says by phone from New York. “Maybe it&rsq