2025- Ongoing
Twice a year in rural Poland, just an hour outside Warsaw, a group of Polish citizens gathers to inhabit a fictional American town set within a trailer park. They fully immerse themselves in an elaborate live-action role-play: a detailed reenactment of a small town Fourth of July celebration. Participants adopt roles based on familiar American archetypes, such as beauty queens, sheriffs, pastors, and disillusioned veterans. Organizers describe the event not as satire, but as a shared fantasy. The line between admiration and critique remains intentionally blurred. This Polish recreation of Trump-era Americana is filled with symbolism, including nationalism, social fragmentation, and the idea of identity as performance. In a time of global uncertainty, the spectacle casts an unsettling light on the instability of American reality. It reflects how the crisis of U.S. identity is perceived, interpreted, and ritualized abroad. What began as a form of escapist fantasy now exists in an uneasy dialogue with a world that feels increasingly volatile.
