Dream of Islands: Simulating Futures Through Osaka 2025
creative direction, publication (coming soon)
2025-2026
In collaboration with Noam Levinger (photography)
Fashion design by Rukpong
This publication offers a critical and poetic travelogue of the Osaka World Expo 2025, a hyper-curated global spectacle staged on an artificial island. Through a mix of essays, visual narratives, and performative field notes, it unpacks the Expo as a temporary city of illusions: a place where national narratives, belief systems, and choreographed optimism collide. From the surreal calm of the massive “Grand Ring” to the quiet despair of waiting crowds, the book we are currently working on reflects on spectacle, control, and the human urge to aestheticize the future.