Over 3.5 million searchable pages: Epstein files on display in New York City

A new public library has opened in New York's Tribeca district, housing the complete Epstein files in physical form. The exhibition features nearly 3,500 bound volumes containing all the Epstein documents made public to date.

In the heart of Tribeca, New York, an installation that is poised to be a major talking point puts the spotlight on one of the most controversial cases in recent decades. The Mriya gallery is hosting a "reading room" dedicated entirely to the publicized files on Jeffrey Epstein, the American financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

The initiative, led by the Institute for Primary Facts in Washington DC, transforms the exhibition space into the "Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Reading Room". This consultation room brings together no fewer than 3,437 bound volumes containing all the Epstein documents publicly released to date.

According to the organizers, the project was born out of a desire to make accessible information about the relationships, networks and associates that Epstein forged over the years, including with influential figures from the worlds of politics, finance and culture.

"The American public has a right to know the truth about Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Donald Trump," said a spokesperson for the Institute for Primary Facts. The physical dimension of this printed archive, and the significant number of documents implicating Donald Trump is helping to keep the spotlight on the matter.

Donald Trump has always denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.

A monumental archive of over 3.5 million pages

The most impressive aspect of this installation lies precisely in its material scale. Some 3.5 million pages were printed, then assembled in several thousand volumes. According to the institute, the work took around a month to complete. The visual effect is deliberately striking: shelves filled with filing cabinets and folders transform this mass of digital information into something tangible and hard to ignore.

The exhibition will remain open until May 21 and admission is free, although the organizers recommend booking in advance in view of the expected high attendance.

The choice of setting up this "reading room" during the week of Frieze New York 2026, one of the world's leading contemporary art fairs, is not an insignificant one. Over the years, Epstein had developed numerous ties in the art world, frequenting collectors, gallerists and influential figures in the sector.

The installation is thus part citizen archive, part public denunciation, part artistic intervention, drawing on the symbolic power of documents to question the relationship between power, transparency and public accountability.

More than just an exhibition, this reading room appears as an experiment in collective memory: a place where the weight of files becomes a metaphor for the political and social weight of a history that continues to raise questions today.