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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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),...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
April 9, 2011 A photograph by award-winning Palestinian artist Steve Sabella is due to go under the hammer Dubai: In a new dedicated photography auction, a photograph by award-winning...
