KOROSU - IO UCCIDO

A book of stories that evoke images and images that imply stories. A lucid and contemporary look at the crimes of our society: from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the threat of nerve gas in Tokyo, to the global standardization that Japan and all strong Western economies are pursuing. There are crime stories that remain indelibly written in collective memory. Apparently common events, revealing family relationships, hidden crimes, perpetrated violence. Since the early 1990s, Yumi Karasumaru overlays her subjective and creative identity with the vision and memory of deep traumas and unbearable lacerations, reflected in a surprisingly high number of suicides and murders in her home country, Japan. Her paintings are born from photographs that alternate urban views of Tokyo and portraits of family or teenagers encountered on the streets of neighborhoods like Shibuya, Harajuku, and Ginza. The use of soft and artificial colors, simulating the effect of digital images, creates a short circuit in relation to the dramatic nature of the subjects represented. In this book, which collects texts from twenty years of performances, a subtle red thread connects the atomic bomb with the progressive loss of a generational identity, hit by the fire of consumption that is destroying Japan's historical and individual traditions.