Vascular

June Crespo’s practice to this day and forms the foundation of the Vascular project, her exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which this book catalogs while also presenting its own arrangement of content. Of particular note is the collection of entries from the Vascular Diary, an unpublished document in which she details her methodology and her personal and artistic journey over the past two years, during which she conceived and produced the exhibition. The artist’s writings are complemented by a series of poems by Miren Agur Meabe, winner of the 2021 National Poetry Prize, as well as critical essays by Jara Rocha and Manuel Cirauqui, the exhibition’s curator.

All of this accompanies images of the works, making the book a document that illustrates not only the result but also the artist’s creative process, while challenging a rigid concept of formalization to position itself in a state of latency and potentiality. This book, another element of the exhibition landscape, delves into Crespo’s sculptural and iconographic editing practice. Conduits, channels, echoes of plant elements, and continuous references to the human scale form a metabolic system—a postindustrial garden where textiles, both in their own materiality and in the form of images and representations, subvert the norms of their common use to become, here, a structural, supporting element: the skin that supports the bust.

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