David Medalla: In Conversation with the Cosmos

9 June – 15 September 2024
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

The portrait of David Medalla taken by Clay Perry in 1964 greets visitors to the exhibition In Conversation with the Cosmos at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

The curators write that it is ‘the first comprehensive survey in the United States dedicated to the late Filipino artist David Medalla (1938–2020). The exhibition contextualizes the elusive and experimental practice of an artist whose pioneering work spanned kinetic, performance, and participatory art movements… Beginning with paintings and drawings from the late 1950s and concluding with the works he produced before his death, In Conversation with the Cosmos presents the accumulations of a creative life imbued with an anti-institutional ethos and a commitment to impermanence and change.’ England & Co were pleased to assist the project with exhibition loans and images for the accompanying publication.