Fault Line, 2018 

For this work, Tabet conducted comprehensive research in Bolzano, Italy on visits to the provincial geological department, the historical archive and a number of typical local stone quarries. This research brought to light three different aspects of South Tyrol history and society that the artist has combined in a site-specific installation.

Using 120 tonnes of Lasa marble powder, the artist has created a landscape that is reminiscent of both the moon and the mountains. On the walls around it, a continuous link of 1550 Bolzano Superinox razor blades marks out an ideal horizon, while in the centre of the room, a watercolor from the Antonio Dalle Nogare collection by the artist Hans Josef Weber-Tyrol (1874-1957) is displayed on an easel. The painting is positioned so it faces the outside of the building and therefore creates and immediate dialogue with the surrounding landscape that the entire installation is a tribute to.

Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Turin, 2018

Road Trip, 2018

Road Trip is a large room scale installation of postcards that follows the story of another font designed in the Nebiolo Foundry in Torino. Veltro was a typeface designed in 1934 and was known among the printers of its time by the nickname of Mussolini, because of the resemblance of its capital M to that of the signature of the Duce. Interestingly, Veltro was for at least thirty years the most popular script typeface for travel postcards produced in Italy. Over the past few years Tabet has been collecting postcards that feature this font. Road Trip turns the central room of the gallery into a narrative frieze using around 1,000 of these found postcards. The sequence follows a journey from Baalbeck in Lebanon to Piazza Carignano in Torino and goes through all twenty regions of Italy.