Artistic Context
While performing Preema feels alive. The performance took her to that level where she is free from any sort of hegemonic chains and societal taboos. Nevertheless, she notices it’s also getting critical and political at some point. But that is the ultimate role of art! Such action of being in art liberates an artist and certainly, it has an impact on her mind. Therefore, she tries to understand the concept and consequences. She connects to her deeper existence while performing. The main goal of her performance is to capture space and time.
Marry My EGG
This performance ‘Marry My Egg’ art basel miami USA, Art Asia 2009-2012 gives motion imageries of a woman sitting on a chair, portraying a plate full of pouched eggs, dressed in a very festive bridal red sari with golden jewelry. This act is a metaphor for women and their fertility. Visitors, while I was performing, were curious by this unexpected and extraordinary act where I, as an artist, was dressed as a traditional Bengali bride. I used food to refer to consumption, fertility, power, and sexuality. In our society is judged by fertility as they are growing older. It is a challenging period what most women go through where they are pressurized to get married within a particular age. I wanted to make society realize that the character who is performing would rather eat up all her own eggs and celebrate her own marriage and fertility. This sarcastic act has drawn visitors’ interest toward Bangladeshi art as not only just a wall-mounted piece. .
The Stare Continues
Art is the aesthetic reflection of the real. As I was deeply engaged in my art process, I could not but allow myself to feel the reality and express thereby. But only canvas, paint, and brush were not enough for my artistic expression. I needed more! I started performing. I started video installation as my art expression. My long white canvases filled with dark black eyes and ‘fully covered’ became my very own expression. The eyes say a lot but the veil shut them up. Eyes are vivid but the veils are static. Therefore, people start understanding my art and they connect through my art with their reality. My performance ‘And Stare Continues’ starts with the veiled face but unveiled eyes sharing the inner sufferings and voices which have been oppressed by societal norms. I used balloons as a metaphor to represent how too much air stuffed into it can make a ‘big bang’ in the end. The stare continues Bengal gallery of fine arts Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ico-lation
We lack connection among us, with nature as well. We are all separate individuals and we apprehend to be connected. This is the conflict I wanted to explore and portray in my performance entitled ‘Intimacy Conflict’ held in Japan. This performance was an improvised act and self-modulation as well. We gradually moved towards the visitors and started touching them. Gradually the energy suffused among all who were witnessing the ‘Intimacy Conflict’. I tried to make people react to my act of love to bring them out from their inner confinement. With two Japanese words I would prefer to describe my performance: ‘Wabisabi’ and ‘Kintsukuroi’. The former one refers to a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and peacefully accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. And the latter word is the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver, joining the pieces and understanding.