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Rayyane Tabet

2024 Stepping Stone Grantee

Bio

Born in Lebanon in 1983, Rayyane Tabet holds a Bachelor in Architecture from The Cooper Union in New York and a Master in Fine Art from the University of California in San Diego. In recent years, Tabet has had solo exhibitions at the MUDAM Museum (2023), Walker Art Center (2021), Sharjah Art Foundation (2021), Storefront for Art and Architecture (2020), Parasol Unit Foundation of Contemporary Art (2019), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2019), The Louvre Museum (2019), Carée d’Art Musée d’Art Contemporain (2018) and at the Kunstverein Hamburg (2017). His work was featured in numerous international group shows, among which the 80th Whitney Biennial (2022), the 7th Yokohama Triennial (2020), the 2nd Lahore Biennial (2020), the 21st Sydney Biennial (2018), Manifesta 12 (2018), the 15th Istanbul Biennial (2017), the 32nd Sao Paolo Biennial (2016), the 10th and 12th Sharjah Biennial (2011, 2015) and the 2nd New Museum Triennial (2012).

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Artwork details

From Window to Jug

, 2020–2023
200 Drinking jugs made out of recycled glass from the 2020 Beirut port explosion, custom-made shelving unit120 × 300 × 15 in
From Window to Jug, 2020–2023. 200 Drinking jugs made out of recycled glass from the 2020 Beirut port explosion, custom-made shelving unit. 120 × 300 × 15 in.

Artwork

  • Installation of identical glass vessels on tiered shelves creating a grid pattern in a modern gallery room.
  • Left image: two silver water fountains with text above: "WHAT GROUP OF PEOPLE WAS TAKEN TO AMERICAN AND SOLD AS SLAVES?"; Right image:A stairwell with a window and a text: "IF THE PRESIDENT CAN NO LONGER SERVE, WHO BECOMES PRESIDENT?"
  • Wall text in Arabic script installed in a large gallery room.
  • A long row of multiple identical circle sculptures crafted out of steel on a concrete gallery floor.
  • A large, abstract concrete sculpture with jagged, layered edges rests on a smooth gallery floor.

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