•The Great Offshore

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They say one of the first uses of photography was in policing, in the Paris Commune in 1871. The Great Offshore, by the French collective RYBN.ORG, is an extensive documentary project that delves into the depths of global finance operating under the radar of the law, in places like the City of London, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Dublin, the Bahamas, Cyprus, the Cayman Islands, Malta and Luxembourg.

The project brings together documents, objects and numerous images of the exact locations of companies with accounts in tax havens from among the 800,000 locations leaked by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Following the Offshore Leaks of 2013, which revealed more than 2 million documents and 130,000 offshore accounts, there came other leaks such as the Falciani List, which identified 130,000 alleged tax evaders, and the Panama Papers, which revealed documents from a law firm specialising in establishing companies in the Central American tax haven. Also on display at Getxophoto is the system developed by RYBN.ORG to explore these databases: a Situationist-inspired GPS prototype that proposes psychogeographical detours in search of the addresses of companies with accounts in tax havens.

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Interdisciplinary collective of technology and programming, founded in 1999 in Paris, and composed of artists Marika Dermineur, Kevin Bartoli and Jack (Jean-Marie Boyer). The collective explores the complex relationships between technologies and economics through extra-disciplinary investigations. RYBN.ORG inspects the latest and most harmful forms of capitalism such as high-frequency trading (Antidatamining), cybernetic eschatology (Data Ghosts), offshore finance networks (The Great Offshore), artificial intelligence (Human Computers), the extent of intellectual property (IPPI), all kinds of capitalisms (Capitalismsxit). Each new investigation adds a landmark that completes the map that of the transformations of contemporary technocapitalism. RYBN.ORG artworks take forms of faulty operating systems, situated archives or guided tours. RYBN.ORG has published The Great Offshore (UV editions, 2021) and Algoffshore (Set Margins’/Rrose, 2024).