MEMOIR

“A picture is worth a thousand words”

Preema as a “PREEMA DONNA” herself has a life that is full of adventures and experiences. Her personal and artistic journey has been always intertwined. Her journey is an aesthetic journal. Her life is a storyboard so the photo archive is an important aspect to understand the prolific Preema. From her childhood till now, she has been disruptive to conditioning. She is a non-conformist but her journey is very strategic. It’s emotional but it’s definitely a performance, as she believes. Artistic instinct is her instinct quality, vivacious nature is her strength to bear any pain and life to her is a constant process of learning and reflecting, even as an artist.

Preema is limitless, and she is fearless. The journey of aesthetics is not only of institutional training, rather experiences accumulated since childhood, meeting personas around the world, traveling rigorously, gathering knowledges from her experiences and always challenges herself of her own limits. Looking-at-others’ works and thereby coming up with newer visions every time added dimensions to the artistic self. Preema’s such mementos are briefly presented upon which she exists: a never-ending journey of discovering the self as an ever-growing artist.

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Preema with her mother Najma Chowdhury and father Dewan Tayebur Rahman in 1975 in Gazipur, Dhaka