C41 Panorama and BiM present on the occasion of the 2024 US elections a revisited archival content produced by award-winning Japanese artist Kensuke Koike and featured on the cover of C41 Magazine 3 entitled “Change,” published in April 2016 and selected for the international exhibition “Hope to Nope” at the London Design Museum in London. Through the photographs by Edoardo Delille and Giulia Piermartiri, published in the magazine’s internal editorial, we gather evidence of the new trend in American politics: Hillar-ious!

“As I write this, it’s 5.30 PM in Milan and 11.30 AM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. CNN has just projected that Joe Biden–the youngest man elected to the Senate 50 years ago–will become the oldest 46th President of the United States of America, and Kamala Harris, the first black South Asian woman, will become the country’s Vice President. After an impressively long race through a pandemic and the enormous social tensions that exploded in America with ‘Black Lives Matter’ following the murder of George Floyd. This victory comes four years after the unexpected rise of Donald Trump, global populism, social media manipulation and the reign of fake news. A few weeks before the 2016 US election day, we at C41 decided to print our third issue with a series of artworks by Japanese artist Kensuke Koike depicting the outgoing President Obama and the two new candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. And after a long debate within our editorial team, we decided to cover the artwork representing Donald Trump.” (Walter J. Cassetta, 2016)