On November 16, 1532, over 7,000 Incans died at the Battle of Cajamarca, an ambush led by Francisco Pizarro. The Incan kingdom of Atahualpa succumbed to Spanish conquest and a colonial rule that would continue to haunt Peru for centuries later. P.6 artist Blas Isasi will be in conversation with P.6 artist Brooke Pickett to discuss his Prospect.6 project titled 1,001,532 CE. Isasi will share the creative process that took him to dig deep into his native Peru´s complex past in an attempt to collapse human history and deep time. 

This program is supported by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.

Blas Isasi attempts to restore the intrinsic qualities and properties of raw materials (wood, metal, fabric, etc.) in his work through a trial-and-error-like methodology, allowing materials to have an active role in the art-making process, and breaking them free of the spell of objecthood. 

Isasi received a BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 2005 and an MFA from Tulane University in 2020. He is also an alumnus of the post-academic program at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands. His most recent solo exhibition, An idea is just the shape of a flower, was presented at The Front, New Orleans, LA (2022). Isasi is also the 2024-25 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, a fellowship that will culminate in a solo exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum, his first institutional solo show in the US.In 2015, Isasi was a recipient of the Braunschweig PROJECTS Scholarship awarded by HBK (Brunswick University of the Arts) and the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2021, he was an artist-in-residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.