From the performance / ‘My Unborn Fetus’ / 2017
“What I am that I am not. What I am not that is performance.”
CONNECTION
Consciously and subconsciously she is always performing. Ever since her childhood, she has this instinct to perform. Space, time, objects, and people always inspire her in different ways to connect with the surrounding. A piece of object is lifeless until artist reacts towards it which gives it life, makes it art. In her childhood when she wanted to hide from any sort of situation, she used to perform in a locked room to separate myself from this world, she thinks.
While performing she feels alive. 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 consequence. She connects to her deeper existence while performing, she considers. As soon as she starts her performance, she notices that it allows her to be disconnected from where she is. And she reconnects where she is supposed to be, being visually empowered to a different level.
Preema is neither hiding nor acting, rather being herself when she performs. She connects with the surrounding in a surreal way to experience her consciousness without any inhibition or hesitation. She believes that’s what ART is all about: to break and create a language within and to explore non-existing elements that is rather powerful, engaging and connecting. The energy of any performance might seem spontaneously dramatic. Therefore, it creates a rhythm which is natural and magically realistic-at-the same time.
She performs because she feels that it breaks her from stereotypical socio-cultural practices and creates within herself a world of innovations. Her performances are metaphorical, spontaneous but significant to understand societal reality which is always covered by social boundaries.
Performance is free from any sort of act that restrains anyone to express. While performing, visual interaction is very important to Preema because it’s actually nothing but synchronizing movements of visual impressions. Her performances will go on like life. Till now, her art performance titles are: And Stare Continues, Marry My Egg, Ico-lation, Aged With Cell Phone, News Agony, Identity, See You See Me, Intimacy Conflict, Shotta: Existence, My Unborn Fetus, Living In The Comfortable Cage, Blind Fold, and Intersection.