Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga is pleased to welcome After All: Photography in the Helga de Alvear Collection. Part of the PHotoESPAÑA 2025 programme, this exhibition surveys the visual history of Europe’s transformation through its architecture, revisiting a century of rupture and rebirth in which photographers documented the echoes of war, industry, and memory.
It shows the gaping wound left by World War I, the industrial crisis that hit West Germany in 1950 and later spread to the rest of Europe and the United States, and the reshaping of the global political order after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that marked the birth of contemporary society, with all its contradictions and conflicts.
We have a specific image of each of these three historical eras, an image constructed by photography and represented in the Helga de Alvear Collection. The first was defined by the New Objectivity artists of the 1920s and 1930s, preceded by Eugène Atget, who extinguished every glimmer of optimism and eradicated all traces of subjectivity and pictorialism in an attempt to represent the interwar years with technical precision and formal accuracy, while simultaneously initiating the debate about the veracity of photography.

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Time:	Jun 3–Jul 27, 2025 (UTC+1)
Location:	The Belgian Sawmill, Alameda Street

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