“Las Reinas” close the State Museums Meeting at the Palace of the Infantado in Guadalajara
On Wednesday, November 26, concluding the “Meeting of State Museums: Networks and Territorial Cohesion,” the CND will bring to the Hall of Battles at the Palace of the Infantado in Guadalajara the segment dedicated to the queens from the work We Tell Truths that seem Like Lies.
“The Queens” portray Queen Christina of Sweden in a duality that invites the viewer to reflect on dichotomies. Both the excerpt and the complete work draw a parallel between the sculptor’s relationship with the material and the choreographer’s relationship with the dancer’s body. The title of the full work, premiered on March 8, 2025, in the Hall of the Muses at the Prado Museum, comes from verses sung by the Muses of Helicon in Hesiod’s Theogony, which say: “We know how to tell lies with the appearance of truths.” In this case, the order of the phrase is reversed: “we tell truths that seem like lies,” to emphasize the role of art in creating an apparent reality that is seemingly fictional, but sometimes more intense and revealing of the mysteries of the reality around us.