How do contemporary mobile games shape our daily habits and gestures in exchange for instant gratification? The Santa Mònica arts centre hosts a collective exhibition uncovering the hidden mechanisms behind our touchscreen routines. 🎮📱

Centred on the compulsion loop concept, this project examines how emotional feedback and dopamine release support digital capitalism and mass user surveillance.

🎨 Exposició "Boom Crash Candy Crush"

📅 From October 28, 2026, to January 31, 2027

🕐 Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays, from 11:00 am to 8:30 pm

📍 Santa Mònica, Barcelona

🎟️ Free admission

📖 Technology, power, and dopamine loops

With billions of downloads, Candy Crush operates as a springboard to question innocent-looking digital routines. The exhibition explores connections between technological control, digital dependence, corporate power, and the military-industrial complex, asking what it means to be human today.

🎨 Featured artists

The exhibition features works by Hito Steyerl, Shona Illingworth, May Murad, Jessica Ekomane, Heba Y. Amin, Noura Tafeche, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Mar Medina + Roc Jiménez de Cisneros + Joana Moll, Mario Santamaría, Aram Bartholl, Faith Holland, aaajiao, Conrad Weise + Kjell Wistoffm, ¥€$Si Perse, César Escudero + Martin Nadal, Sarah Ciston, Asia Bazdyrieva, Ben Grosser, and laSADCUM.

ℹ️ Good to know: Closed on Mondays (except public holidays). Closed on December 25 and 26, and January 1 and 6. Special opening hours on December 24 and 31 from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.

✨ A piercing visual examination of the forces competing for our everyday attention.