Sat 6/7 @ 5-9PM
SHED Projects on Cleveland’s west side is a house gallery, dedicated, it says, “to fostering investigative activity at the intersection of art, family life, and contemporary urban habitation.”
For its next show, it’s presenting El viento will bring us home, a solo show by Peruvian artist Blas Isasi, addressing issues from Peruvian history around the fallout from Inca Atahualpa’s ransom, offered in exchange for freedom after the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532. That ransom of silver and gold objects was melted down by the Spanish, obliterating their history. Isasi, they tell us, “imagines a future in which these metals—haunted, displaced, and scattered—reclaim their agency and return home through winds of cosmic justice.”
This is Isasi’s first Cleveland solo show in Cleveland. It’s especially meaningful to SHED co-founder and chief curator Gabrielle Banzhaf, who has Indigenous Peruvian ancestry. The show opens with a reception on Saturday June 7 and will be on view through July 19. Gallery hours are Thursdays & Fridays from noon to 3pm, and Saturdays from noon to 5pm.
It’s free and open to all.