Japanese photographer Hidefumi Nakamura has been documenting public toilets in his native country
A historical narrative unfolding through text
And what does the future hold in store for the familiar black square
Welcome to our golden symphony
Published within the context of the Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship—a four-year initiative for contemporary art curators aimed at exploring novel research approaches that challenge conventional curatorial and institutional practices—Falling In features contributions from Ama Josephine Budge
CURA.45 Blackout Has stock in Germany Japanese photographer Hidefumi Nakamura has"Blackout is a glitch, a moment of rupture, riot, and rebellion; a cognitive tilt that disrupts the network of understandingthe very possibility of connection, communication, and control. Blackout is an anomaly in the system: a suspended time, a crack that can signal madness, or freedom. It is a failuretechnical, structural, mental. A rupture, an omission, an interruption. It is both silence and noise. It is ghosting, dissent, shock, ubiquity. A