The Rum Point Club at Stowaway Gallery, Los Angeles

The Rum Point Club presents ten works on canvas and linen. Hittmeier’s alluring compositions center on the Cayman Islands, a historically infamous tax haven. The Panama (2016) and Pandora (2021) Papers both uncovered the extraordinary prevalence of clandestine offshore financial networks, where an estimated 15% of the world’s wealth is currently stored. These havens are built through an opaque system involving ghost shareholders, elaborate paper trails, and exploited regional actors. Hittmeier’s practice, which has long been rooted in the examination of political power, recently shifted focus to capital; the ever-present back bone of influence. He has since sought to build a design language for the present and future—one that aestheticizes the global network of wealth obfuscation and concealment.

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