Contracorrientes (Countercurrents) pairs Miguel Covarrubias and Dr. Lakra — born nearly seven decades apart — around a shared precocity, counterhegemonic perspective, and mastery of line. Covarrubias's Bali illustrations and Pacific cartography meet Lakra's reworked Bhutanese iconography and large-scale tattooing map of the Pacific Rim. Both artists use the body as a primary site of expression, movement generating form across caricature, monoprint, and ceramic. Together they propose alternative spatial and cultural relationships, centering the Pacific rather than Europe and marked bodies over mapped territory.
