TIRANA, Oct 4 /ATA/ – In a temporary pavilion set up in Skanderbeg Square in central Tirana, German photographer Jutta Benzenberg’s exhibition “Don’t Look Back at the Burning House” continues to draw public attention with a powerful visual journey through memory, loss, and artistic rebirth.

The exhibition offers a deeply personal and historical narrative of Albania in the 1990s, structured in three chapters: portraits and daily life scenes from the country’s post-communist transition; collages created from fragments of Benzenberg’s personal archive; and, for the first time, images derived from the scorched negatives of a 2006 fire that destroyed nearly 90 percent of her work.

Together with curator Olsi Hoxha, Benzenberg worked directly with the damaged negatives to create new photographic works that sit between documentary photography and contemporary art. The results are also published in her latest book, “Don’t Look Back at the Burning House.”

The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sports, Blendi Gonxhja, praised the exhibition as a mirror of the country’s shared histories.

“This is an exhibition that invites visitors to look beyond material loss, discovering how art can re-emerge both as a personal story and as a reflection of a nation’s collective memory,” Gonxhja wrote on social media on Friday.

The exhibition is free and open to the public daily from 10:00 to 20:30 at the HBS Gallery, Temporary Pavilion, Skanderbeg Square.