Lizzi Bougatsos, The King’s Virgin (2015), via Rae Wang for Art Observed

What does it mean to work? To what extent is play quantifiable as labor and vice versa? Such are the questions posed by Work Habits, the latest solo exhibition from artist Lizzi Bougatsos on view at James Fuentes.  Stepping into a space lit up in traffic light red on opening night, one quickly garners a Nietzschean sense of faith unfound, unraveling foundations and unsustained beliefs.  The room, minimally adorned with a dynamic installation of assemblages, depict these found and repurposed objects as inherently lazy. (more…)