The Compound

The Compound is pleased to present Silver Baits, Silver Archives, a culminating multi-chapter series unfolding across exhibitions, performances, screenings, and site-responsive interventions from June 20 – July 25.

Through installations, moving images, sound, performance, and spatial choreography, this project explores surveillance, collective memory, mistranslation, and the unstable relationship between witnessing and control. Across three interconnected chapters, participating artists collectively examine how self-surveillance and archives under the table deform, echo, conceal, and rehearse power.

Chapter 1: Distracted Soldiers
Group Exhibition
June 20 – July 25, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 20, 5–8 PM

Chapter 2: Archives are Under the Table
Multi-site Performance & Screening Event
Sunday, June 28, ticket link coming soon!

Chapter 3: Stuttering is Echoing
Exhibition Pt. 2 / Site-Responsive Intervention
July 10 – July 25, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, July 10, 5–8 PM

Artists announcing soon…
Stay tuned for more details!

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“Negative Space” by Artist Resident Lamar Robillard
Robillard presents over a decade of photographic practice through an unconventional archival approach; this seemingly gentle display proves provocative, as the negative relationship between film and contact sheets, combined with the physical labor of the viewer shifting perspectives, raises interrogations about the invisibility of Black identity.
The knight watches on, impassive.