Group Exhibition
June 20 – July 25, 2026
Main Space
Opening Reception: Friday, June 20, 5–8 PM
Artists: Kyoungho Isaac Kim, Coco Klockner, Alyssa Matthews, Talia Rudofsky, Chase Satterwhite, Varvara Tokareva, Aineki Traverso, Kay Yoon, Monsieur Zohore
Gallery Hours: Mon & Wed by appointment; Fri–Sat, 12–4 PM
The Compound’s Multidisciplinary Arts Program 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, 2026.
Distracted Soldiers is the first chapter and foundation of this culminating series. The stanchions stretch across the room, multiplying into a serpentine route that quietly choreographs movement, attention, and waiting. In this exhibition Distracted Soldiers, the entanglement of discipline and distraction exposes itself. Retractable queue barriers that maintain the order of lines will transform from auxiliary tools of order into the subject of space itself. The entire site will be covered by a serpentine path, and viewers will be compelled to move along predetermined routes. The space is choreographed as a site of continuous drill: monitors replay delayed images; mirrors generate returning lines of sight, quietly.
The barriers are strangely gentle, arranging bodies in the most ordinary way: the crowd is segmented into units within them; gazes slide above the belts, mutually visible. Mirrors reflect endlessly repeating queues—we watch order, and we also become the image of order.
This exhibition features Kyoungho Isaac Kim, Coco Klockner, Alyssa Matthews, Talia Rudofsky, Chase Satterwhite, Varvara Tokareva, Aineki Traverso, Kay Yoon, and Monsieur Zohore. 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.
