American Dream - United SStates of

The dream has fractured.
The promise has turned into a mirage, the shared horizon has narrowed into a fence. The American Dream deforms, distorts, and takes on the traits of an exclusive ideology.

The work takes shape in 2025, during the burning dusk of Donald Trump’s second inauguration. It is both gesture and dissent — a visual response to an America folding in on itself, mirroring the ghosts of its past. Continuing the inquiry begun with American Dream – Burnt in the U.S.A., the flag — a central symbol — is bent, manipulated, semantically scorched. Within it, swastikas emerge, shards of a national identity slipping from patriotism into supremacism.

The double S in the title is both echo and warning. From “States” to a “State of exception,” the shift is brief. The SS are not only historical memory, but a possible return — the reemergence of the repressed. The work does not accuse; it reveals. Where once stood the utopia of collectivity, now creeps the striped nightmare of exclusion.