True/False art curator Sarah Nguyen guided festival-goers through the various pieces of artwork on display for this year’s festival
On a guided walk, Sarah Nguyen, the True/False art curator, discussed the deeper meaning behind the works on display this year.
“Gathering Carefully,” a multimedia art installation, hangs from the second floor of Jesse Hall on Saturday, March 2, 2024 in Columbia, Mo. The installment is a work by Zena Segre, a Detroit-based artist. “It reminds me of a fisherman’s net,” said Sarah Nguyen, the art curator for the True/False Fest. “Being underneath this, I feel like I missed something before being caught in it.”“Yin Yang Baby” is an inflatable art piece created by Xena Felicia. It is inspired by LGBTQ+ culture, the human paradox and folklore. The blowup is located in the Sculpture Yard on Ninth Street in Columbia, Mo.“The Good Table” was created by two siblings, Lendl Tellington and Salome Sykes. The installation features their great grandmother’s dining room table. Linens and handmade crochet doilies line the table, while the projection of a video they created about their family’s generational single Black motherhood played over the table.A man looks through the shapes of “World View,” a sculpture that was 3D printed and is on display at the True/False Fest. The sculpture was created by Cesar Lopez, who is originally from Guatemala, which inspires a lot of his work. “These look like bio-shapes to me, almost like technology but also something you could see in a virus,” Sarah Nguyen said. “Cesar is colorblind, so he chooses colors that are black and white or green. They are also colors that represent his childhood as well.”A woman touches “Deer Run,” which is a fiber art installation created by Mary Sandbothe. The textile art is inspired by deer in Columbia and the negative consequences they face as a result of natural space elimination. “She is bringing what we see in town regularly and giving them beautiful forms so we really see them in a way we normally don’t,” Sarah Nguyen said.
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