For William Cromar, associate teaching professor of art, his multimedia piece “La Trahison des Signes (The Treachery of Signs)” is featured in the exhibition truth* at the city’s National Liberty Museum through May.
The video installation is comprised of 42 individual projections of his wife’s mouth, speaking about 100 different phrases that might be considered controversial or whose meanings can shift depending on the speaker. The piece is silent, and the mouths are projected into individual surgical masks.
“Overall, the exhibit explores the slippery nuances of truth as it appears in public discourse. The notion was for me what does truth mean in a post-truth world? I was ruminating about it and landed on the idea that it becomes dangerous territory when two different people say the same words, and they mean opposite things,” Cromar said.
“Key terms have…