About six or seven years ago, I attended the premiere of a video art film by an author I did not know, Pedro Alba. It was titled: “Lorca en la piel”, and among the images created by Alba, the unmistakable language of the Andalusian poet resonated.
Subsequently, the historian and journalist Jordi Rovira brought me the interview that Lluis de Salvador conducted with Federico García Lorca at the Teatre Modern in Tarragona in 1935, which resulted in the book: “Lorca, la incògnita visita”. I have always kept Pedro Alba’s film in mind, because it was created from the purest intuition, as he was unaware of the poet’s visit to the city when he made it.
As soon as I began organizing the commemorative events for the 80th anniversary of Lorca’s visit to the city, this work became one of the projects in consideration, and I asked Pedro Alba to complete it and present it with an exhibition of documents related to the film.
Video by David Serra
Last Friday, October 16, at the Exhibition Space and Auditorium of the Territorial Services of Culture of the Generalitat, in Tarragona, Pedro Alba inaugurated the exhibition “Lorca en la piel” with an engaging conference, the screening of two video art films—the aforementioned one and another, new one, complementary to the former—as well as a series of photographs, sequences extracted from the film, and other images with an obscure Lorcan essence, over which he blindly wrote words invented by the audience.
Pedro Alba, a true Andalusian, interprets the Lorcan shiver in a world of sensations, through evocative images and traces of colors.
