Yale University said on Monday that the controversial art project of a senior would not be allowed in the campus art exhibition scheduled to open Tuesday unless she includes a disclaimer that says her claim to have filmed numerous self-induced abortions is a work of fiction.

Aliza Shvarts has brought apparently unexpected attention on herself and the institution she attends, Yale University, through a controversial senior-year art project that has dismayed both students and the wide public.

Central to Shvarts’ project is her claim that over a period of several months she inseminated herself “as often as possible,” only to induce miscarriages through herbal drugs she ingested.

A disagreement has now erupted between Shvarts and university school officials. The latter say Shvarts previously clarified that she had not in fact inseminated herself and induced abortions and that it was all made up for her art project.

Friday, Shvarts insisted that she had experienced “repeated, self-induced miscarriages,” but that she had not actually known that she was pregnant. Yale officials explained that her denials were also part of the project and demanded on Monday that the confusion end.

An article on Thursday in student newspaper the Yale Daily News quotes Yale College Dean Peter Salovey saying he is “appalled” and that Shvarts’ project “bears no relation to what I consider appropriate for an undergraduate senior project.”

School of Art Dean Robert Storr said, “This is not an acceptable project in a community where the consequences go beyond the individual who initiates the project and may even endanger that individual.”

Salovey and Storr added that they had found “serious errors of judgment” on the part of Ms. Shvarts’ adviser and an art instructor who knew of the project, and that “appropriate action” had been taken against the two teachers.

Shvarts’ installation will be unveiled at the official reception for the Undergraduate Senior Art Show on Tuesday and will be on public display from April 22 to May 1. On condition that she give a written statement that the story is a concoction of her own imagination and that there is no physical display of actual human blood.