June Crespo (born 1982 in Pamplona, lives and works in Bilbao) understands sculpture as an exercise that enables her to bring together seemingly opposed qualities. Her works partake equally of the petrean and the perishable, the mechanised and the manual, the abject and the sensuous. The convergence between materials and motifs creates a vocabulary that seems interpretable as a contradiction. On the one hand, certain motifs are taken from industrially produced objects, bearing in mind aspects like ergonomics and formal organicity. On the other, plant and organic motifs appear as the result of highly technical systems of production and representation. Both respond to the exploration of a transitional body-object that, having been fragmented and recomposed, forsakes its original form and meanings. Thus, stalks, busts and conduits are abstracted into channels and carcases that trace a network of connections ranging from the tectonic to the physiological and associated with the domestic sphere and its design as an extension of the body. In this way, notions like human scale, void and gravity are used to establish analogies with the body and to influence the intrinsically spatial, that is, physical, nature of sculpture.
June Crespo graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Universidad del País Vasco (2005) and took part in the De Ateliers residency programme in Amsterdam between 2015 and 2017. Her solo shows include: Acts of Pulse (2022) at P420, Bologna; entre alguien y algo (2022) at CarrerasMugica, Bilbao; Am I an Object (2021) PA///KT (Amsterdam); Helmets (2020) at Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Voy, sí (2020) at Ehrhard Florez (Madrid); No Osso (2019) at Uma Certa Falta de Coêrencia, Porto. She has taken part in group shows such as: The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale 2022; Fata Morgana,
Jeu de Paume, Paris, and El sentido de la Escultura at Fundación Miró, Barcelona.
