Pacific Club
A bronze cast evoking a riding saddle is fixed to the wall by stainless steel tubes. Colour leather elements cascade over this glistening bronze, giving the assembly a haptic and organic dimension. With Acts of Pulse (1), June Crespo evokes the life force that emanates from matter. The title suggests a pulse, perhaps a regular and changing heartbeat. This fluid illusion of organic and anthropomorphic forms reveals a visual dissonance, as the sculptor confronts noble materials such as bronze and manufactured ones such as steel in the same piece. Drawing on the juxtaposition of opposites, she produces a kind of erotic chimera suggestive of the shape of a tongue or a vagina, questioning the issues of femininity and the body. June Crespo creates these formal and symbolic analogies between the body and objects with the aim of tempering the hierarchical nature of these concepts.
Text written by Clara Delettre as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.