The Compound

For the month of March, Artist Resident Lamar Robillard worked within his archive —
scanning, sorting, and pulling from over a decade of negatives in preparation for his forthcoming book, My First Song.

What’s presented here is a loose activation set to accompany the release titled Negative Space, the exhibition unfolded as an environment where contact sheets and negatives spread across the walls like fragments of memory in motion.

Alongside this, his archival film Ghetto Gospel & The Ambiguity of Truth
played as a visual poem featuring Super 8 footage of New York interwoven with photographic remnants, blurring the line between document and dream.

Images appeared on raw wooden panels —
an ode to material honesty, where the photograph resists polish and remains exposed.

Throughout the space, Black knights stood as sentinels —figures of resistance,holding the room, watching over what remains and what is still becoming.