June Crespo

JUNE CRESPO

“Danzante” at the Secession

Vienna, Austria

In Danzante, June Crespo invites us into a visceral dialogue between body, space, and material. Her sculptural assemblages—at once delicate and forceful—pulse with life. Inspired by organic forms such as the iris and strelitzia, Crespo avoids literal representation. Instead, she explores the tactile and symbolic potential of surfaces, where bronze, steel, concrete, and fabric converge into sensuous, breathing compositions.

Through 3D scanning, casting, and unconventional pairings—industrial components, worn textiles, fragments of personal clothing—Crespo constructs dreamlike forms that challenge our perception. These works feel simultaneously intimate and architectural, grounded yet in motion. They evoke bodily sensations, create new affinities between flesh and stone, and transform the exhibition space into a choreography of encounter and transformation.

Crespo’s process is a meditation on material agency and fragmentation, revealing how things—like bodies—can connect in tension, contradiction, and fluidity. Her sculptures don’t demand interpretation; they invite relation. As she says, “If the works are free, the viewer is freer too.”

Danzante is co-produced with Vienna Secession, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain.