Starr Figura and I visited Bursztyn’s studio in Bogotá while finalizing the checklist for Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction. We were convinced she had to be included in the exhibition…and thanks to Patty Cisneros this was possible! When the motor is on (as Bursztyn intended), this rather elegant arrangement of discarded scrap metal becomes a cacophonous, vibrating, welded heap that evokes the sense of hysteria alluded to in her series title.

Sarah Meister, Curator, Department of Photography