After Arles in 2015, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas is exhibiting the work of Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti on tax havens and is proposing two roundtables on the subject.
Tax havens have quietly taken the world by storm. Ever-growing articles and reports on this poorly understood subject are generally illustrated by images of palm-lined beaches. Is that really what tax havens look like? From Delaware to Jersey, from the British Virgin Islands to the City of London, Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti show us a secret world very different from what we most often like to imagine. For two years, the two artists traveled to offshore centers that embody tax evasion, secrecy, and extreme wealth, led by a unique obsession: to translate these immaterial subjects into images. They actually created a company, justly titled The Heavens, whose head office is located in the same building as Apple, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Google, Wal-Mart, and 285,000 other companies. Tax havens are not an exotic eccentricity, but rather a structural instrument of the globalist economy. They confront us with the most fundamental moral problems and question the relations between public and private, companies and states, rich and poor.
Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti : The Heavens, Annual Report
March 23 – April 21
Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Centre Assas, 92 rue d’Assas
75005 Paris
https://www.u-paris2.fr/fr
Book published by Delpire et Dewi Lewis, 49€.
Roundtable 1: March 23rd, 7 PM- 9 PM : « La photographie documentaire : un art de la dénonciation publique ? » (“Documentary photography: an art of public condemnation?”) – With Mémona Hintermann, Gabriele Galimberti, Paolo Woods, Frédéric Lambert, Michaela Ott et Laure Poupard.
Roundtable 2: March 24th, 7 PM- 9 PM : « Paradis fiscaux : au-delà des clichés » (Tax havens: beyond the shots”) – With Gauthier Blanluet, Raphaël Coin, Martin Collet, Benoît Delaunay, Nathalie Mognetti.
