June Crespo (Pamplona, 1982) lives and works in Bilbao. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country (2005) and participated in the De Ateliers residency programme (Amsterdam) between 2015 and 2017.
"June Crespo’s artistic practice is largely identified by sculpture, through which she develops a language based on procedures such as collage or packaging and the experimental use of images. Her work’s point of departure are the emotional and dialectical connections that are established between functional objects and forms that she questions from her most at-hand surroundings. Intuition will be the trigger for digesting interests and concerns of different types, without them being shown explicitly or premeditatedly in the initial conception of the work.
Her methodological strategy is based on the material transformation of pre-existing elements or other forms that are appropriated through their reproduction with moulds. Crespo interferes in the way of reading objects by freeing their associative potential in a process that involves establishing a series of relationships that range from the combination, reconfiguration, or ordering of different parts to the incorporation of procedural contingencies such as fragments, cracks, imperfections, or prints. These “occurrences” are incorporated into the piece, reinforcing their materiality, strengthening their tactile quality, and enriching the narrative connotation of the new structures offered."
Extract from the publication June Crespo. Helmets, introduction by Susana González
Among her individual exhibitions, the most important ones are: vieron su casa hacerse campo (2023) at CA2M, Madrid; 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 the Ehrhard Florez gallery (Madrid); No Osso (2019) at Uma Certa Falta de Coêrencia, Oporto; Ser dos (2017) and Cosa y Tú (2015) at the CarrerasMugica gallery, Bilbao. She has taken part in collective exhibitions such as: The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale 2022; Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume (Paris), and El sentido de la Escultura at the Fundación Miró (Barcelona).
Photo credit: Carlo Favero