38 Days of Re-Collection on the Bookcover. Pluto Press. Winner of the Palestine Book Awards Displacement as metonym (in the sense of actual movement from place to place) and as...
2009 The city considered a bridge between heaven and earth may be absent in Sabella's photographs, but everything in these frames indicates the manner by which this native photographer has...
2021 38 Days of Re-Collection on the bookcover. "In Becoming Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, filmmakers, dancers, and activists use the archive in order to radically...
2013 "Two artists and fellow travellers with children growing up away from home may find their inspiration in their offspring, but each goes his own way when it comes to...
2017 In 2016, the University Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin launched the Contemporary Interventions in The Bumiller Collection exhibition series in collaboration with Taswir Projects, showcasing the Syrian artist...
2017 Brittle shards of wall enshrined in vitrines mix with a colorful, contemporary take on Arabic illuminated manuscripts. There are timeworn chess pieces and mirrors too. Time seems to ping-pong between...
2017 If we understand irony as a riposte or a horror on the part of a counterpart, a negation embracing the exist- ing and employing the affirmation of the existing,...
2017 Steve Sabella’s 38 Days of Re-Collection (2014) suggestively conveys the thrust of the idea of displacement. As metonym, “displacement” signifies the actual movement from place to place, and as...
2017 How does one materialize the grief of geopolitical dislocation and historical injustice—in this case, that of the occupation of Palestine—into a mode of sensibility, one that isn’t captured by...
2017 "Sabella’s archaeological-seeming fragments, peeled from the Old City walls of his native Jerusalem with a surgeon‘s care and precision, reach deeper into layers of time and memory. He then...
2021 "Printed onto a piece of yellow limestone from Jerusalem is an old black and white family photograph of two children playing with a horse in an area close to...
2014 Since the third century, when Philostratus was recorded to have been the first to describe pictures he claimed to have seen in a gallery, writing on visual images...
2009 More recently Sabella has explored the concept of ‘exile’ from a different perspective: his daughter. As he touchingly explains: “When Cécile was born…it was only a question of time...
2014 Note 2 Steve: ever restless, born 1975 in Jerusalem. grew up in this city with its long-lasting conflict between Israel and the Palestinian claim to human justice. It is...
2014 The Scavi Scaligeri International Centre for Photography is hosting Steve Sabella: Archaeology of the Future, the first solo exhibition by this artist of Palestinian origin in an Italian...
2015 In Steve Sabella’s haunting work In Exile, images recurrently depict a somber but meticulously constructed exile. Each image seems to repeat and proliferate images of houses or apartments,...
