Inspired by Joseph Rozé’s 2025 trip along the East Coast of the United States, during which strangers answered this simple question: “How do you imagine 2025?”, this artist’s book captures the pulse of an America on the brink of upheaval, at the dawn of Donald Trump’s second term.
Beginning in Washington on January 20, 2025—the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration for his second term—Joseph Rozé’s journey takes him through New York and ends in the Southern states two and a half months later.
The book, with a foreword by Violette d’Urso, presents some thirty anonymous testimonies in English and French. At this pivotal moment, asking Americans about their vision of the near future is akin to taking the pulse of a collective imagination that extends far beyond their borders.
A distillation of contemporary fantasies, anxieties, and hopes, the United States appears here not merely as a territory, but as a canvas for projection.
Accompanying the interviews, the artist creates a portrait of the moment: a series of images shot on 6 × 6 film using Ektar 100. These images, taken with long exposures at the sites of the encounters, offer a resonance of those moments.
The project explores the gap between what is said and what is imagined. By shifting the image toward the landscape, toward abstraction, and at times toward ambiguity, the work opens up a space for the imagination. It embraces the element of uncertainty and vagueness inherent in any projection into the future.
A recent graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Joseph Rozé lives and works in Paris. His practice spans film photography and video. While pursuing his studies, he began working in film, directing several short and feature-length films, notably *La Récréation de Juillet* (2024), which was presented in the official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. He is the recipient of the 2024 Bourse des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris grant to produce the visuals for the project “HOW DO YOU IMAGINE 2025?”
A Franco-Italian writer born in 1999 in Paris, Violette d’Urso lives and works in New York. Her debut novel, *Même le bruit de la nuit a changé* (Flammarion, 2023), has been translated by Mondadori.
22 x 22 cm
84 pages - 32 ill. coul.
ISBN : 978-2-84056-939-8
Prix 35 €
