Yumi Karasumaru – Facing Histories in Hiroshima
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04/11/2017 – 12.00
Museo Ettore Fico
via Cigna 114, 1055 Turin
Performance
Torino 2017 special version, 13′
In her actions Yumi Karasumaru combines the expressive modes of the Japanese theatre with Western performing style, as well as in her artworks the memory of traditional Japanese painting coexists with her country’s pop culture.
The artist uses her body as a screen where she projects the most tragic memories of the History of her native country. The projection, accompanied by her voice and by music, produces a hypnotic narrative due to the interaction of texts, images and sounds.
Facing Histories in Hiroshima – Torino 2017 special version, moves from the atomic bombing, a traumatic event on which have dwelled in many occasion, starting from the Atomic Series (1995) and Modern Crimes (1999) in painting. The scenic use of her clear and mellow voice, accompanied by the sperimental music of Enrico Serotti and the reading of poems written by authors who survived the Hiroshima tragedy, bring life to a performance which transforms the dramatic event into a painful poem.
http://www.museofico.it/en/yumi-karasumaru-facing-history-hiroshima/
