Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance.

- Friedrich Nietzsche


Forms of Deception is concerned with art's illusionistic or deceptive capacities, or the necessary detour that it must make through artifice.

Each of the artists employ various representational mediums, examining the suspension of disbelief, duplicity, or sleights of hand proper to these techniques.