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,...
2015 Il cognome indica una lontana origine siciliana per dei passati parenti che dall’isola emigrarono verso oriente. Steve Sabella compie un viaggio al contrario e lascia la Palestina nel 2007...
2016 "In 2007, I photographed my three-year- old daughter, Cécile, as she stood at the window of our living room in London saying, ‘Daddy, I want to go home to...
2010 Told Untold Retold, 23 Stories Through Time & Space, is a collection of stories each vividly expressed in a newly commissioned artwork by 23 artists with roots in the...
2013 Keep Your Eye on the Wall brings together seven award-winning artist-photographers and four essayists, all responding to the Wall that suurounds Gaza in images or words. A beautifully...
2012 "This gorgeous, inspirational guide to collage is the first book to combine a review of collage with a practical section on how to do it. A beautifully illustrated survey...
2010 I think art became interested in me and I had to conform to this reality. I have questioned my surroundings and the essence of being since I was a...
