"Alberto García-Alix" Exhibition
14 April 2027 – 9 May 2027
Gran Teatre del Liceu, el Raval, Ciutat Vella
If, for Alberto García-Alix (León, 1956), “to photograph is to look straight at what admits no consolation”, then his body of work is an intense and stark visual narrative in which life is exposed without filters or aesthetic excuses. A fundamental figure in contemporary Spanish photography, his work does not seek to beautify reality but to reveal its cracks and accept the emotional risk inherent in any true exploration of the self. García-Alix's photography takes shape as a fragmented autobiography, crossed by the experience of time, the body, desire, loss and death. Black and white —dense, high-contrast, almost material— is not a formal choice but an ethical stance: a space of gravity in which light becomes cutting and shadow becomes refuge. Portraits, self-portraits, objects charged with symbolism and scenes of extreme everyday life form a coherent universe marked by a directness that allows neither distance nor irony. In his work, the body is a territory of memory and confrontation. Marked, vulnerable and often wounded bodies appear as testimony to an existence lived at the limit. García-Alix photographs from within, without condescension or nostalgia, assuming responsibility…
Source: Ajuntament de Barcelona · checked on 8 September 2026