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  • Final Frontier: Jabir in the scramble for planets Final Frontier: Jabir in the scramble for planets
  • Final Frontier: Jabir in the scramble for status Final Frontier: Jabir in the scramble for status
  • Final Frontier: Peshrau Final Frontier: Peshrau
  • Hostile Witness: Grant road, Mumbai/Bombay Hostile Witness: Grant road, Mumbai/Bombay
  • Mohtasib: Moral recruit of Jehel, the invisible lord of fear and silence | Zagh-e-Zaman: The upholder of the planetary order Mohtasib: Moral recruit of Jehel, the invisible lord of fear and silence | Zagh-e-Zaman: The upholder of the planetary order
  • Final Frontier: Jabir’s ruinous march from blue to red Final Frontier: Jabir’s ruinous march from blue to red
  • Untitled Untitled
  • Hostile Witness: Calcutta/Kolkatta, BBD Bagh Hostile Witness: Calcutta/Kolkatta, BBD Bagh
  • Hostile Witness: Aminabad Lucknow Hostile Witness: Aminabad Lucknow
  • Nice Jacket (from the series of Lie machine) Nice Jacket (from the series of Lie machine)
  • Got place? (from the series of Lie Machine) Got place? (from the series of Lie Machine)
  • Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn - Women, Land and Borders Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn - Women, Land and Borders
  • Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn - Women, Land and Borders Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn - Women, Land and Borders
  • Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn - Women, Land and Borders Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn - Women, Land and Borders
  • Hostile Witness: Iqbal Maidan, Bhopal Hostile Witness: Iqbal Maidan, Bhopal
  •  Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn -  Women, Land and Borders Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn - Women, Land and Borders
  • Joystick and the spoils spilling out: Paris on a holiday Joystick and the spoils spilling out: Paris on a holiday
  • At least faux flowers last longer At least faux flowers last longer
  • 4 am Tea 4 am Tea
  • I’ll fix ammi’s table, bada kaam batao I’ll fix ammi’s table, bada kaam batao
  • 2 am: Free fire wins of bright clothes 2 am: Free fire wins of bright clothes
  • Aaj ka gham jo hai, zindagi ke bhare gulsitan se khafa Aaj ka gham jo hai, zindagi ke bhare gulsitan se khafa
  • 3 am snack: war and workers do not sleep 3 am snack: war and workers do not sleep
  • 8 pm traffic jam 8 pm traffic jam
  •  Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn -  Women, Land and Borders Hostile Witness: Between Dusk and Dawn - Women, Land and Borders
  • Hostile Witness: Anonymous Hostile Witness: Anonymous
  • Untitled Untitled
  • Untitled Untitled
  • Get with the programme, 2025 Get with the programme, 2025
  • There’s ice cream for everyone There’s ice cream for everyone
  • Break the damn silence Lie Machine: Men and the moon do not care, 2025 Break the damn silence Lie Machine: Men and the moon do not care, 2025
  • You don’t even have the language to describe what is happening to you You don’t even have the language to describe what is happening to you
  • Mom I know you are proud: She sleeps with the lights on Mom I know you are proud: She sleeps with the lights on

Moonis Ijlal is an artist, historian and journalist. His work archives lived-experience of oppression amplified by modern technology, and the monopoly-driven ‘naturalisation’ of technology that may transform humans to a dot in the larger loop of the machines’ working. He archives manufactured conflicts as well as transformations machines impose on humans to ‘fix’ them as per their own new (flawed) logics. He is interested in offline and online phenomenology (lived experience) amongst the users of technology, the life of the real and digital consumption, normalisation of structural exclusion as well as processes that dismantle apartheids within the realms of the real and the digital, in the present. 

His current works engage with issues of adaptation under situations of forced displacement, surveillance, censorship and strife.  

In 2025 he opened his solo show Lie Machine: Men and the moon do not care (Shrine Empire-India Art Fair parallel 2025, New Delhi and Rajiv Menon Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles); India Art Fair, 2024; Art Mumbai 2025 & 2024; Hostile Witness at Art SG, 2023; Hostile Witness, Baaraan Ijlal and Moonis Ijlal, Shrine Empire, New Delhi 2021.

Mom I know you are proud: She sleeps with the lights on
  • India Art Fair 2024
    India Art Fair 2024 –  | | Group Show

    February 01,2024-February 04,2024

  • Art SG 2023
    Art SG 2023 –  | Baaraan Ijlal x Moonis Ijlal

    January 12,2023-January 15,2023

  • India Art Fair 2022
    India Art Fair 2022 –  | Group Show

    March 29,2022-March 29,2022

  • Shrine Empire x Richard Parr Associates-Collisions
    Shrine Empire x Richard Parr Associates-Collisions –  | Group Show

    October 08,2024-October 12,2024

  • Art Mumbai 2024
    Art Mumbai 2024 –  | Group Show

    November 14,2024-November 17,2024

  • Lie Machine
    Lie Machine –  | Solo Show

    January 30,2025-February 10,2025

  • India Art Fair | Booth - B09
    India Art Fair | Booth - B09 –  | Group Show

    February 06,2025-February 09,2025

  • Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2025
    Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2025 –  | Group Show

    August 30,2025-September 04,2025

  • Art Mumbai 2025
    Art Mumbai 2025 –  | Group Show

    November 13,2025-November 16,2025

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