June Crespo
The artistic practice of June Crespo is largely identified with sculpture, where she develops a language based on procedures such as collage or assemblage and the experimental use of images. The starting point of her work are those affective and dialectic links established between forms and functional objects that question her from her closest environment. Intuition will be the trigger to digest interests and concerns of different kinds, without these being shown explicitly or in a premeditated way in the initial conception of the work. His methodological strategy is based on the material transformation of pre-existing elements and other forms that he appropriates by reproducing them with molds. Crespo interferes in the way objects are read by liberating their associative potential, in a process that involves establishing a series of relationships ranging from the combination, reconfiguration or arrangement of the different parts to the incorporation of processual contingencies, such as the fragment, the breakage, the imperfection or the trace. These "events" are incorporated into the work, reinforcing its materiality, enhancing its tactile quality and enriching the narrative connotation of the new structures proposed.
June Crespo (Pamplona 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. She graduated in Fine Arts from the University of País Vasco in 2005 and participated in the residency program De Ateliers (Amsterdam) between 2015 and 2017. Her solo exhibitions include: Danzante (2025) at Vienna Secession, Rose Trraction at Le Crédac (Paris), Vascular (2024) at Guggenheim Bilbao, Vieron su casa hacerse campo (2023) CA2M (Madrid), Am I an Object (2021) PA///KT (Amsterdam); Helmets (2020) at Artium,Vitoria-Gasteiz; No Osso (2019) at Uma Certa Falta de Coêrencia, Porto; Ser dos (2017) and Cosa y Tú (2015) at CarrerasMugica gallery, Bilbao; Recently she has participated in group exhibitions such as: The Milk ofDreams, Venice Biennale 2022; Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume (Paris) or The Sense of Sculpture at the Fundación Miró (Barcelona).
