Who is Priyanka Chandra? The artist behind GEEMEEO's first collection
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There are artists who make work that is beautiful. And there are artists who make work that is necessary. Priyanka Chandra is the second kind.
When GEEMEEO set out to find the right artist for its first wearable art collection, the question was never purely aesthetic. It was deeper than that. We were looking for an artist whose work demanded something from the viewer — not passive admiration, but genuine encounter. An artist whose paintings do not simply hang on a wall, but change the air in the room.
We found Priyanka Chandra.
A practice rooted in the interior life
Priyanka Chandra is a contemporary Indian artist whose practice is built on a single, unflinching commitment — to paint the things that are hardest to say. Her work explores the texture of human emotion: grief and tenderness, mortality and love, the strange beauty that lives inside impermanence.
She does not paint surfaces. She paints depths. And there is a discipline in that — a refusal to settle for work that merely pleases the eye when it could instead unsettle the soul.
What makes Priyanka's work distinctive is its quality of stillness. Her paintings are often quiet — but it is the kind of quiet that holds enormous weight. Like the moment just before something is said that cannot be unsaid. There is tension in the stillness, and there is grace in the tension.
Art as philosophy
Priyanka's work is deeply philosophical without being academic. It draws from the ancient and the immediate in equal measure. From the Stoic tradition's meditation on impermanence. From the Indian philosophical concept of ahinsa — non-violence, in the broadest sense — as a way of moving through the world. From the lived experience of being human in a body that will one day cease.
These are not abstract concerns for her. They show up in every brushstroke. In the way light falls in her compositions. In the weight she gives to negative space — the parts of the painting where nothing is, and everything is implied.
To stand before a Priyanka Chandra painting is to be asked a question you did not know you were carrying. That is the mark of work that matters.
The Memento Mori series
The works that form the foundation of GEEMEEO's first collection come from Priyanka's Memento Mori series — a body of work that takes its name from the ancient Latin reminder: remember that you will die.
But do not mistake the name for darkness. Priyanka's Memento Mori is not about death. It is about what death makes possible — the clarity, the tenderness, the ferocious appreciation for being alive that only comes when we stop pretending we will be here forever.
The series includes works like The Mother — a painting of unconditional love so quiet and so complete that it stops you. And Ahinsa — a meditation on gentleness as a form of strength, not weakness. Each painting in the series is its own world, and yet together they form a coherent philosophical statement about what it means to be human.
Why GEEMEEO chose to begin here
GEEMEEO's founding belief is that the first collection sets the tone for everything that follows. It announces what the brand values, what it believes art can do, and what kind of relationship it wants to build with the people who wear it.
Choosing Priyanka Chandra was, in that sense, a statement of intent. We are not a brand that puts pretty images on fabric. We are a brand that collaborates with artists whose work has something urgent to say — and trusts that the people who wear GEEMEEO are ready to hear it.
Priyanka's work does not whisper. But it is never loud. It finds that rarest of registers — the one that is felt before it is understood.
On collaboration
The process of translating Priyanka's paintings into wearable pieces was not mechanical. It was a genuine collaboration — a conversation about how each work lives on a body, how it moves, how its composition breathes differently on fabric than on canvas.
Every decision — fabric weight, print placement, garment silhouette — was made in service of the original work. The goal was never to adapt the art to fit the clothing. It was to find the clothing that was worthy of the art.
An artist of Priyanka Chandra's depth deserves more than a licensing deal. She deserves a collaboration. That is what GEEMEEO offers every artist it works with — not a transaction, but a relationship.
Discover the collection
The Memento Mori collection by Priyanka Chandra is available now on GEEMEEO — a strictly limited-edition run of wearable art pieces, each numbered and shipped with the story behind the work.
If her work speaks to you — if you feel that quiet, insistent pull that good art produces — trust it. That feeling is the point.
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