Yumi's Youtube canne & web site texto per la performance "Facing Histories in Hiroshima 2017 – special version for Turin" at MEF

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  In her actions Yumi Karasumaru combines the expressive modes of the Japanese theatre with Western performance style.  In her art the memory of traditional Japanese painting coexists with her country's pop culture.
  
  Yumi uses her body as a screen to project the most tragic memories of the history of her native country. These projections, accompanied by her voice and by music, produces a hypnotic narrative from the interaction of texts, images and sounds.
  
  Facing Histories in Hiroshima – Turin 2017 special edition, moves from the atomic bombing, a traumatic event on which many have dwelled, starting with the Atomic Series (1995) to Modern Crimes (1999) in painting. The scenic use of her clear and mellow voice, accompanied by the 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.