This installation is made of tiny beds, made out of Japan paper with framework and at present exhibited in Sydney , Home Gallery.

The whiteness of the whole installation is typical of home linen, maybe a mean to preserve the purity of the childhood. The shape of the beds is arched like for those in public institutions, nurseries, primary school or holiday camps. How many children have taken a nap in those too soft beds? How many of them have had fun with jumping upon them? How many have cried for their parents out of boredom? Those memories sized for childhood are set in bulk, as if it is possible to choose among them. They look also like they have been got ridden off…good old time is over.

Yanina Weber is a patient and meticulous artist who details to the millimetre the emotion contained in each piece. She knows how to amplify the fine Japanese paper, not with the size of it but creating a huge symbolic dimension. Is it home-sickness for one's own doll house or nostalgia not to have known over packed classrooms with kids fighting and making uproar?

Mystery belongs to one who tries to look back upon a too distant childhood.

Cyane Delamade