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Eugenio Merino reproduces a faux souvenir of current tax havens, the axis of the exhibition at ADN Galeria: the Bahamas, Luxembourg, Cayman Islands or Switzerland, the latter being the title of the show.
In this sense, Eugenio Merino reproduces a faux souvenir of current tax havens, the axis of the exhibition at ADN Galeria: the Bahamas, Luxembourg, Cayman Islands or Switzerland, the latter being the title of the show. Switzerland is, according to Falciani, “the best manager of untaxed money”. Merino uses deck chairs embroidered with the flags of these territories to exhibit the close relationship between tax haven and sensory pleasure; to show tax evasion as an orgasmic action, a unique experience.
The souvenir is a sort of personal justification and a symbol of the tourist’s social dominance. The trip itself is a colonizer act and the economic transaction maximizes the adjective. Tax havens are generators of economic borders and their clients are soldiers given to the cause. Together they maintain a banking system that stems and perpetuates inequality. Their shield is a practically unbreakable secrecy. Merino points out and reveals issues that revolve around the legislation’s inefficiency, its permissiveness and its passivity. His work language, based on irony and popular imagination, serves this purpose.
