The work i took to explore today relates directly with the 4 Week’s lessons of the

course. Transforming Everyday Objects. Feliza Bursztyn was a Colombian son of

Poland Jewish parents, born in 1933. Bursztyn based her works in sculptures, envolving
kinetic art, all made from different materials that she had access on her daily life, and
used to critique the political and religious elite. Bursztyn’s father owned a textile
factory, wich made it easier to her manage these materials and spread her creativity as
she wants. In 1967 she comes with this series called Las Histericas or The Hysterics,
consisting in a serie of sculptures using different materials, forms, movements and
mechanical noises. This work came up as a break with common preconceptions and
social naturalizations, using all type of junkyard scraps, metal, alluminium, steel, and
used industrial tools to transform it in a abstract sculpture, some of them more
agressive, raw and some more geometrical and aesthetical. She used all this tools to
provide a experimental way of expression, such as we all can do, and that fascinates me
because it shows that our mind is a world to be explored and shows how we can express
it in different forms that defy reality. Las Histericas was originally exhibited in 1968 at
the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá and won that year's XIX National Salon of
Artists.