Two pianists sharing a single instrument — their movements crossing and completing each other — is what musicians call a "Four Hands" performance. That image takes literal form here. Lahti is a printmaker with a career spanning more than five decades, trained alongside masters of postwar American art and long embedded in the creative communities of New York's Lower East Side and Bushwick. His prints carry history, structure, and mark — images and narratives fixed in ink. Dravigny is a weaver, and in these collaborative works he takes Lahti's printed pieces into his textile practice, incorporating them alongside abaca and kimono fabric so that the loom becomes a place where two visual languages meet. The result is not a print displayed beside a textile, but something fused: narratives interlaced as much as fibers, four hands at work on every surface.

Brought together through their shared connections to the Philippines and its communities —they find in this method a form that is at once structurally exacting and quietly tender, one that echoes the longstanding textile traditions of Filipino craft while pulling them into new territory. Kundiman is an exhibition about collaboration, but more than that, it is about what remains when one artist's fixed marks are taken up by another's hands — transformed, held, and woven into something neither could have made alone.

Text by Marie Nelle Valmoria