11/09/2025
creates casts and moulds, in particular of organic elements like flowers, in steel, bronze, or concrete by making 3D scans, a high-tech mode of production and representation that severs the objects from any kind of natural order. She plays with enlargement and fragmentation, and her works come with various surface structures - they are often abject, raw, or encrusted. She then combines these moulds and casts with found textiles or industrial building elements as well as her own apparel, choosing items that are especially close to the body to add an intimate scale to the work. The industrially produced elements reference the outer skins of buildings and their systems of evacuation and climatization.
Combining the organic and the technical, Crespo’s art not only reflects on the pressure and destruction wrought on nature by post-industrial production. It is also a process of reparation in terms of fixing fractures between things that did not seem to belong together but that are constructed and reconstructed in an alternative linking prac-tice. The objects let different registers appear together, resembling a dreamlike space where things appear within
