8th Festival of Contemporary Arts and Thought 'Clàssics'
8 October 2026 – 17 December 2026
Diferents espais culturals
EVERYTHING IS A LIE Desire started it all. We opened the doors to an ancient yet ever-new territory and, deep inside, found a question we had not dared to ask: how far are we willing to go for what we desire? Would we be capable of lying? Lying is not an aberration of the present. It is not an invention of algorithms or a disease of our times. The lie was born with the word; it is as old as fire, as necessary as myth. Without lies there would be no Odyssey. Without pretence there would be no Medea. Without deceit, no tragedy, no comedy, no love worth telling. And so, when we go to the theatre or the cinema, or when someone tells us a story by the fire, we look at the lie and we believe it. We do so because we want to, because we know that in art the complicity of the audience is essential. The lie is a pact, and art is the place where audience and artist know they are being deceived and yet keep coming back. This year we have not come to denounce the lie. We have come to display it — with curiosity and humility: to look at it twice, to cut it open, to interpret its hidden meaning, to weigh up its evidence and draw our own conclusions. To set aside, for a moment, what we want to…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 2 November 2026