DISPLAY no.1 is a 24-page black and white publication, the first opus of a series of a zines by Nicholas Vargelis. Nicholas Vargelis's Display (2020) is a site-specific intervention in the Project Space gallery that makes use of and expands the gallery's lighting system.

An open work, Display consists in the setting of an assortment of incandescent light bulbs of various shapes, sizes, and colors in the ceiling of the gallery along with a set of guidelines—both a protocol and a mode d'emploi. The work is accompanied by a series of artist-made zines. Functioning as an addition to the gallery’s lighting system, and in dialogue with systems art, media theory, installation art, Fluxus, and institutional critique, Display poetically and literally spotlights the invisible labors inherent to the visual arts system, staging the work of a speculative exhibition lighting designer–a role in reality often played by untrained interns, gallery staff, or the artists and curators themselves–as central to the way the art on display is experienced. By subtly employing incandescent and color light bulbs, Display undermines the once-subversive white cube with its standardized tone and accepted neutral hue. Vargelis's system will be utilized during all exhibitions in EFA Project Space's 2020-22 season, as an active accompaniment to curator-led and artist-led interventions in the space.

See https://www.projectspace-efanyc.org/nicholas-vargelis-display for more info and to download a PDF preview.