From Where There Is No Return is a journey through García-Alix’s past and present. The numerous photographs that comprise it were taken between 1976 and 2008, and many of them are now being exhibited for the first time. The exhibition’s arrangement in non-chronological sets is designed so that the visitor’s comprehension of the photographer’s universe will be gleaned from viewing the images as a united whole rather than from the individual photographs. The impressions formed while contemplating the works are combined with the first-person testimony of the artist, whose own voice narrates the audiovisual piece from which the exhibition takes its name and which constitutes the focal point of the show. The video is an exploration of García-Alix’s personal world through sequences recorded during various trips to China, where he decided to lose himself in order to tell his own story. The observer is drawn into a time warp to the artist’s past and a return to his present. García-Alix’s photographs delve into the lesser-known aspects of Madrid’s cultural upheaval in the 1980s while simultaneously portraying his most immediate surroundings – friends, prominent figures of the day, landscapes of his life. Today, his perfection of portraiture and composition has become a tool that he turns inward upon himself, one which reveals the artist’s evolution toward more abstract and poetic perspectives.

THE POEM (Alberto García-Alix)
La fotografía es un poderoso médium.

Nos lleva al otro lado de la vida.
Y allí, atrapados en su mundo de luces y sombras,
Siendo sólo presencia, también vivimos.
Inmutables. Sin penas. Redimidos nuestros pecados.
Por fin domesticados… Congelados.

Al otro lado de la vida… De donde no se vuelve.