Steve Sabella: Independence | Seth Thompson | Afterimage
January/February 2015 In the Middle East, one's identity is often defined by a passport. When someone mentions a country or place, a mental image of that location and its people...
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New Constellations for Steve Sabella | Canvas
January 2015 It was a busy year for Berlin-based Palestinian artist Steve Sabella, with 2014 seeing four exhibitions and a monograph (Steve Sabella: Photography 1997–2014 by Hatje Cantz). The collaborative...
Steve Sabella Insights into the Nature of Identity and Visual Reality | Cedar Wings | Lebanon
August 2014 To introduce Steve Sabella as definitively Palestinian or definitively Arab would be to overlook this exceptional artist’s life quest of questioning one’s given identity, what identity is in...
Free-Falling Into the Future | Madeline Yale Preston | Independence Exhibition Catalogue | Meem Gallery, Dubai
2014 The images of art do not supply weapons for battles. They help sketch new configurations of what can be seen, what can be said and what can be thought...
In Conversation with Steve Sabella | Madeline Yale Preston | Independence Exhibition Catalogue | Meem Gallery
2014 Madeline Yale Preston: Several of your series’ titles – In Exile, Metamorphosis, Euphoria, Beyond Euphoria, to name a few – suggest states of being that are interconnected in sum....
Seeing and Unseeing Through Recreational Purpose | Nat Muller | Bahrain National Museum
2014 Sabella’s compositions veer from the surreal depictions of mirrored cityscapes and the iconic 400-year old Tree of Life, to highly deconstructed energetic painterly collages reminiscent of cubist and fauvist...
Image as Witness - Archeology of the Past: Interview with Steve Sabella | Wafa Gabsi | Contemporary Practices Journal
Volume XI, 2012 Developed throughout several years, the photographic works of Sabella represent a place of memory and a hotbed of imagination. Being mysterious and fascinating at the same time,...
Preserving the Image | Robin Mann | Canvas
July 2014 The decision to make the work in question – the so-called ‘signature’ image of the exhibition Fragments at Berloni Gallery in London – was a relatively easy...
Fragments | Sheyma Buali | Harper's Bazaar Art Arabia
2014 Through Berloni Gallery’s floor-to-ceiling windows, Steve Sabella’s large-scale photographs appeared like fragments, a fitting title for this four-part retrospective of the Palestinian artist’s work. Closer inspection of Exile (2008),...
LAYERS Catalogue Foreword | Abed Al Kadiri | CAP Kuwait
2014 In an interview with Sara Rossino in 2010, Steve Sabella spoke about his series Exit (2006) and said, “When I discovered that my city of birth disappeared and went...
Beyond Palestine | Malu Halasa | Layers Exhibition Catalogue | CAP Kuwait
2014 Steve Sabella looks perturbed. His hair is messy. He’s talking fast. He gives the impression of not sleeping much recently. The Israeli bombing of Gaza hospitals and schools in...
The Last Word | Canvas
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Steve Sabella's Ecdysis: The Catharsis of Metamorphosis | Dorothea Schöne | Contemporary Practices Journal
Volume XI, 2012 “History breaks down into images, not into stories” — states Walter Benjamin in his final text, Passagenwerk. In an era of short-living and over-dosed imagery, this statement...
Steve Sabella in Conversation with Sara Rossino | The Changing Room
2011 SR: Steve, I know you are a careful ob- server of the reality both inside and outside of yourself. Did you foresee or somehow expect the recent events in...
Euphoria | Christa Paula | Bonhams
13 Apr 2011 Sabella's practice is noted for its on-going investigations of the exilic condition. Questions of identity and belonging juxtaposed to, what he calls, the 'toxic' political realities of...
Bonhams First Dedicated Photographs Sale | L'agenda
April 13, 2011 A photograph entitled Euphoria, 2010 by the award-winning Palestinian artist Steve Sabella is one of the highlights of Bonhams’ first dedicated Photographs Sale, which takes place...