Lovay Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition dedicated to pioneer Filipino artist David Medalla (1938–2020). The exhibition focuses on his late works from 2009 to 2020. Built around the Sand Machine, Baguio 1 (1963–2017), at once ephemeral and endlessly in motion, the exhibition unfolds as a wandering through time and space, echoing Medalla’s own itinerant life and practice. From the late 1970s, Medalla developed his “synoptic realism,” a highly personal approach bringing together memories, friends, artists, historical figures, mythology, and political events across a variety of mediums.

Medalla continued to reactivate ideas originating in the 1960s and 1970s, treating them as ongoing processes rather than fixed historical objects. The Sand Machine (1963–2017) presented in this exhibition—consisting of a motor-driven rotating arm and beads along a thread that continuously traces and erases patterns in a bed of sand—embodies a commitment to impermanence, transformation, and…