The setup of The Assault of Illusion is underway

For more than a month, the Santa Monica has been transformed into a large production workshop to shape The Assault of Illusion, the exhibition opening on March 18, 2026. The exhibition brings together 21 local and international artists who work with perception, representation, and the boundaries between reality and fiction. Among them are Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves (A.A. Murakami), Alain Josseau, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Anish Kapoor, Antonio Gagliano and Verónica Lahitte, Berndnaut Smilde, Chico Amaral, Fabian Knecht, Ilê Sartuzi, Juan Antonio Cerezuela, Julia Santa Olalla, Klaus Frahm, Leandro Erlich, Lucrecia Dalt, Manuel Calderón, Miquel Màrtir, Núria Güell, Víctor Enrich, or Xesca Salvà, among others.

The exhibition is the largest infrastructure deployment ever carried out at the center. The project's dimensions—both in terms of museographic complexity and production scale, and the consolidated trajectories, the breadth of contexts, and the range of artistic practices involved—have required an exceptional technical deployment. The usual preparatory work for an exhibition—painting rooms, flooring, installing lighting, or mounting pieces—has been supplemented by the construction of a large modular structure designed specifically for the project, carried out by Pascualin's team.

This structure is the backbone of the first part of the tour. The modular system not only allows the exhibition to be organized as a dynamic scenographic itinerary, but has also been designed so that the project can travel to other venues in the future. After its presentation in Barcelona, The Assault of Illusion will travel to the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid between November 2026 and March 2027. From May 2027, the project is designed to tour other international venues.