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...
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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 "Steve Sabella is considered one of the most thriving artists from Palestine today. The 15-minute-documentary gives an insider view of the artist's practice, in which photographic technique and material...
2015 This 208-page hardback cover is Steve Sabella's first monograph, which looks at the Palestinian artist’s work over the last two decades. The cover is a detail of a work...
2016 "We cannot be defined by our relationship, positive or negative, to Israel," Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine's de facto national poet, once insisted. Darwish's vision is both borne out and tested...
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...
2018 Exile is not only a form of division, but of multiplication. Edward Said, in his “Reflections on Exile,” expresses this multiplicity in aesthetic terms: “Most people are principally aware...
2020 "الأرض الحرام" هو عمل من ثلاث لوحات فوتوغرافية بعرض ستة أمتار، وقد تم، إبرازه أيضاً، ضمن عرضللمتحف الفلسطيني بعنوان "اقتراب الآفاق: التحولات الفنية للمشهد الطبيعي"، هل يمكنك أن تتحدث...
2020 “No Man’s Land” is a six-metre-wide photographic triptych, which was also featured in the Palestinian Museum’s show Intimate Terrains: Representations of a Disappearing Landscape. Can you tell us about...
2020 For multimedia artist Steve Sabella, these hard times require us to access the potential of our imagination in order to conjure up our collective future. His works of art...
Spt. 2020 In what way and from what perspective was your first relationship with Jerusalem formed, politically, visually, and personally, and which of these formations had the strongest...
