Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents Danzante, the first solo exhibition in an Italian institution by June Crespo. The artist conceives her sculptural assemblages as communicating vessels that resonate within the bodies of visitors. Sometimes delicate, at other times energetic, the installations always emanate a vital and lively quality.
Most of the works in Danzante derive their formal vocabulary from the shapes of iris flowers and birds of paradise, although the artist does not aim to faithfully reproduce these plants. Their appearance serves as a starting point for a deeper engagement with materiality and the evocative potential of surfaces and textures, which take precedence over the pictorial dimension in her practice. Crespo treats her materials as agents, considering herself an assistant to her work rather than an authoritative figure. In this way, she offers a visceral experience: an encounter with objects that touch us in our corporeality and heighten our awareness of being present and in a fragmented condition.
