Nazia Andaleeb Preema’s arts in the series entitled ‘Cosmopolitan Women’ are structurally and stylistically cosmopolitan indeed because of the mixed media Preema uses to portray the diversity of culture in women around the world. The artworks, a fusion-effect of photograph and painting, merge the East and the West in terms of fashion where veils with extreme reddish lipsticks, blackish dark eye-liners, and ‘bindia’ (a fashion accessory used by women in forehead in Indian subcontinent, also known as ‘teep’ in Bangla) are superimposed to depict surreal tales of cosmopolitanism.
For example, artworks like ‘Fanush’ and ‘Cosmopolitan’ give a vivid carnivalesque image of no centre-margin relationship by joining the bricks of different races and cultures in one platform: Preema’s canvas. Preema also experiments with ‘Expression Diversity 1’ and ‘Expression Diversity II’ through oil on canvas and acrylic on canvas respectively where various expressions of women are suffused in a way through lyrical color tones that lead to one cultural expression: human.
