The work Verblassen embodies the search for home and far away. In the last year Montalbetti visited different places that form an important part of her families identity. East Germany - Warsaw and Southern France. The found objects and photographs that contribute an important part to the balance of the mobile originate from these places. The passages of text visible on the fragments of paper are taken from Montalbetti's conversations with her grandmother.

At the end of World War II, Montalbetti's great-grandmother fled her hometown near Belgrade to East Germany, where she gave birth to her grandmother four years later. Her grandmother was raised in the GDR and moved to Warsaw as a young mother, leaving the country 10 years later for faraway Tunisia and eventually returning to united Germany. 

By entering an intense exchange with her grandmother and questioning the inner restlessness in her family, Montalbetti succeeds in creating a work that embodies the dance between wanderlust and home, past and future. A balance between two static states that embody desires and yearnings. Between these two desires emerges the vitality, life and identity of each.