the pain, politics and playfulness of david medalla

The photographs on the museum wall show a frail, elderly man, variously posed against a tangle of sheets. He is in his early 80s, and the suffering in his face is clear. But the portraits are also whimsical: the man half-hides his face in a pile of flowers, or wears a crown and a cascade of beads. His exhausted eyes stare out from behind a patterned mask.

These photographs by the late Filipino artist David Medalla, a fixture on London's art scene for decades, were not originally intended to be exhibited. They were composed as "an act of resistance" to ...