Baaraan Ijlal is a self-taught artist based in New Delhi (India). She is interested in exploring anonymity as essential to individual liberty. She seeks to enable listening and creating witnesses to unacknowledged stories. Her medium includes acrylic paint, sound, video,...
Read MoreBaaraan Ijlal is a self-taught artist based in New Delhi (India). She is interested in exploring anonymity as essential to individual liberty. She seeks to enable listening and creating witnesses to unacknowledged stories. Her medium includes acrylic paint, sound, video, light, and resin installations among others. Her sound installation Change Room, is an ongoing project to enable listening of unacknowledged stories, told anonymously towards possible change. Those who have recorded their stories with artist as witness include nomads ousted by authorities from the forests, people turned out of homes and neighborhoods because of their sexual orientation, victims of caste and communal violence, people who have been declared stateless overnight, and war refugees to name a few. Recordings have so far taken place in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Her installation Coal Couture, launched at the World Health Organization’s First Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health (2018) in Geneva is a mock brand of luxury luggage made as a coveted couture object. Her installation Silent Minarets, installed at Mumbai International Airport are anonymous letters by 43 women embroiderers of UP village to themselves.
Her selected exhibitions are Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE 2023; Hostile Witness: Painting by Baaraan Ijlal & Structures and sculptures by Moonis Ijlal at Art SG 2023; 7th edition of Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Language is Migrant, Curated by Anushka Rajendran 2022; Forestial Flock curated by Adwait Singh, Shrine Empire, Delhi, India 2022; Group exhibition, Hub India: Classical Radical, MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale | Residues & Resonances, Italy 2021; Hostile Witness, Solo exhibition, Shrine Empire, New Delhi, India 2021; Seeds are being sown at Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi, India. Curated by Shaunak Mahbubani 2020; Change Room, (audio installation) at Chintretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan. Curated by SGFA Tokyo 2019; Installation of Change Room at TENT Arts Space, Kolkara, India. Curated by Divakar Venkatraman. 2018; Installation of Bird Box at Oddbird, New Delhi, India. Commissioned by Sadbhawna Trust and American Jewish World Service (AJWS) 2017; Installation of Silent Minarets Whispering Winds at Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport’s Terminal 2, Mumbai, India. Curated by Rajiv Sethi 2016.
