“Poetry is not a caress.
It is a punch. A scream. A laughing knife.
A piano in flames.
It does not brush against the dead, but awakens the living.”

On November 14, OPOS hosted a special evening dedicated to the Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca. The event opened with the screening of the 1967 documentary Federico García Lorca, directed by Fulvio Rendhell, a valuable historical testimony to the poet who has come to symbolize freedom and artistic resistance.
This was followed by the first-ever live performance by PAV, a singer-songwriter without a biography (“PAV is a Gesture”), who presented LORCA, his debut album entirely inspired by the verses of the Spanish poet.
LORCA is a radical and poetic work: nine tracks that transform Lorca’s words into songs suspended between electronics, piano, and guitar, where music becomes an act of memory and rebellion. It is an album that does not caress poetry, but detonates it in the present. Entirely self-produced, it was conceived as a gesture of artistic independence — a poetic divertissement, but also a declaration of freedom: the possibility of succeeding or failing without compromise.
The project’s first three music videos — Despedida, Cuatro Baladas Amarillas, and Dos Marinos en la Orilla — are signed by Colombian documentarian Matt Arteaga, who succeeded in translating PAV’s visionary tension and delicacy into images.
The Milan evening marked the absolute premiere of the project, the first stage of a journey that will continue in the coming months across Europe and Central and South America. The album LORCA is available on all digital platforms.

Behind the name PAV stands an artist, philosopher, and musician who has chosen to erase his own biography in order to remain a gesture rather than a persona. He does not declare an origin, but speaks through music. Within his songs coexist creative solitude and absolute freedom — a minimalist folk infused with South American and Mediterranean influences, poised between intimacy and defiance.

Photo by Rinkaku
Video by Jacopo Graziano

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