June Crespo | Pulsation

Pushing, pulling, stretching, hanging, resting: June Crespo’s sculptural assemblages are notable for the fine balancing act that they enact between opposing forces. An electric pulse, some vital energy, courses through the rigid solidity of the materials that constitute her works. Dispersed throughout the spaces of MO.CO. Panacée, the over twenty works on view engage in a teasing game of hide-and-seek, a distended syntax, a chamber opera in which noise, particles and membranes constantly overlap in a pulsating, carefully laid out choreography.

If a majority of the works take their formal vocabulary from the vegetal world, June Crespo is less concerned with mimetic representation than with proposing a classificatory symbolic order, where these plants serve as starting points for a deeper engagement with materiality and the evocative potential of shapes, surfaces and textures. June Crespo treats her materials as agents, placing herself in the role of assistant to her work rather than an authority figure. In this way, she offers a visceral experience in which each encounter with a work touches upon our corporeality and heightens our awareness of our own experience and its fragmented condition.

Pulsation is June Crespo’s largest exhibition in France to date. It includes works produced especially for the occasion.

June Crespo (born in 1982, Pamplona) lives and works in Bilbao.
She obtained her BFA from the Basque Country university (Bilbao) in 2005 and completed a two years residency at De Ateliers (Amsterdam) in 2017. Her solo shows include: Más Graves (2026) at Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisboa; Danzante (2026) at Fondation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino; Danzante (2025) at Secession, Vienna; Rose Trraction (2025) at Le Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine; Solar (2025), at Ehrhardt Flórez gallery, Madrid ; Their weft, the grass (2024) at 1646. nl, The Hague ; Vascular (2024) at Guggenheim Bilbao Museum ; they saw their house turn into fields (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) Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Recently her work has also been shown in group such as : To pass from one dream to another at Biennale de Lyon (2026); Columna Rota (2025) at Museo de la Ciudad de México; Carazzato at Museion, Bolzano (2024); L’écorce (2023) at CRAC-Alsace; The Milk of Dreams (2022) at Venice Biennale; Fata Morgana (2022) at Jeu de Paume, Paris and The point of Sculpture (2021) at Fundación Miró, Barcelona.

Exposition coproduite en partenariat avec Secession, Vienne, Fondation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin et MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain.

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Curators

Rahmouna Boutayeb and Anya Harrison, with Alexis Loisel-Montambaux, exhibition assistant.
Under the artistic direction of Numa Hambursin CEO of MO.CO.