The artwork features a stack of used and weathered motorcycle helmets in varying shades of gray and black, with pops of bright red that add a striking visual contrast. The helmets are stacked in a precarious manner, creating a sense of tension and instability. The overall composition emphasizes the sense of wear and decay, suggesting the fragility and impermanence of the objects. The artist's intention may be to comment on the disposable nature of consumer goods or the fragility of human life and safety in the modern world. ...
June Crespo’s practice is a sensual analysis of contemporary models of repre- sentation, commenting on the actual and symbolical dynamics enveloping the female body (visible for example in the incorporation of magazines catering to a female audience in her sculptural sets). Crespo’s interest in the concrete and corporeal conditions of the object/body, as well as in the immaterial contexts where it circulates and shifts, questions contemporary life’s composite config- uration made out of material and discursive dynamics.
June Crespo obtained her BFA from the Universidad del País Vasco and she recently completed a residency at De Ateliers (Amsterdam). She lives and works in Bilbao (Spain). ...
