White Lies Matter
Poster
2020 (made)
2020 (made)
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Black and white screen print poster on white paper with lettering in black reading 'White Lies Matter' above a suited headless figure with a hashtag for a head, gesturing. Signed and numbered 25/50.
Object details
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| Title | White Lies Matter (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Screen print poster on heavy white stock paper |
| Brief description | Poster by Design is Play, 'White Lies Matter' diptych. USA, 2020. |
| Physical description | Black and white screen print poster on white paper with lettering in black reading 'White Lies Matter' above a suited headless figure with a hashtag for a head, gesturing. Signed and numbered 25/50. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mark Fox and Angie Wang (Design is Play) |
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| Bibliographic reference | This poster diptych (E.645 and E.646-2021) was supported by a successful crowd-funded campaign which closed in July 2020. In the artist's own words, their inspiration behind the project was as follows:
'1) Donald Trump is a pathological liar. 2) We have designed three limited-edition agitprop posters in response. 3) We will donate 50% of all future poster sales (post-Kickstarter) to benefit the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Southern Poverty Law Center.'
The artists elaborate further on their motivations to bear witness with their work, adding:
'#WhiteLiesMatter ties President Trump’s propensity to lie about even trivial matters—little white lies—to his race-baiting rhetoric; his “White” lies. #WhiteLiesMatter is a refutation of “White Lives Matter,” a racist denial of the fundamental truth that “Black Lives Matter.
#WhiteLiesMatter reduces Donald Trump to his essence: an empty suit, meaningless gestures, and a narcissistic fixation on projecting an image of power—typically realized by defaming the “other.”' |
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| Accession number | E.646-2021 |
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| Record created | November 25, 2021 |
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