Sarah A. Singh (she/her) is a New Orleans-based visual artist. She creates as “slimm”. slimm warps the clearly recognizable human form to satirize dogmatic notions of fixity and uses multi-layered, crosscutting lines and collage to invoke an agitated skepticism. Her work simultaneously pays homage to her roots by invoking “traditional” Indian portraiture in its emphasis on figures’ profiles and sharp features like the jawline and nose. She melds horizontal and vertical lines (respectively associated with stasis/monotony and energy/life force) with diagonal lines to communicate between the 2-dimensional page and the viewer, and between the past and the present. Her work rests on her background as a historian of twentieth century social movements in the US and personal research into the 1947 “Partition” of the Punjab region of North India into Punjab, Pakistan and Punjab, India, and her ancestral relationship to this event. She is particularly interested in the impact that state surveillance, control and self-regulation have had on her family as relates to generational mental illness and the queerness of “womanhood” within these contexts. slimm'’s artistic practice investigates these themes in her everyday relationships and more broadly in her work as an educator.

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