Exodus and Back | Myrna Ayad | Canvas
Nov, 2011 One of the rather ironic points of departure in understanding Steve Sabella’s body of work is his name. Whereas his oeuvre is defined by an intense desire...
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Stages of Transition: Visualizing “exile” in the Work of Steve Sabella | Dorothea Schöene | Afterimage Journal
2012 n extensive body of scholarship within the various fields of the humanities has worked to broaden the definition of the term “exile,” though the implications of the word itself...
“I AM FROM JERUSALEM” | Steve Sabella | Christa Paula | Empty Quarter Gallery Dubai | Solo, Euphoria & Beyond Text
2010 "The price they paid for this was living in two worlds, in uneasy tension between two identities permanently in conflict that forced them to experience the self and the...
Steve Sabella | Martina Corgnati | Contemporary Practices Journal
Volume VI, 2010 In 1997 Wijdan Ali wrote that, generally speaking, art Palestine-made is overwhelmed by its content, or, as Nada Shabout put it more recently, prisoner of an obsession,...
Steve Sabella: In Exile | Charlotte Bank | NAFAS Universe in Universe
July 2010 The effects of exile on the human psyche are arecurrent theme for Palestinian authors, especially Edward Saïd. In his novel about return and exile I saw Ramallah, Mourid...
SETTLEMENT | Steve Sabella | Bina Sarkar International Gallerie, Issue 25, 2010
2010 Convincing six Israelis to strip for him and stand in their underwear, Sabella creates an artwork that is uncommon in the region as it shifts from ubiquitous views of...
Contemporary Art Practices | Magazine Cover Featuring In Exile | Volume VI
2009 Download cover In Exile Art Page
Reconstructing Deconstruction | Gerhard Charles Rump | Contemporary Art Practices Journal
2010 Steve Sabella, born in Jerusalem in 1975, is a Palestinian artist based in London. He is the holder of the Ellen Auerbach Award (2008) granted by the Akademie der Künste (Academy of...
Steve Sabella: “My Art Is Not About Palestine! It’s About My Life” | Khelil Bouarrouj | Institute for Palestine Studies
March 6, 2015 Steve from Palestine “My art is not about Palestine! It’s about my life.” Steve Sabella quickly corrected me as I started our interview with a line about...
The Harrowed Hands of Palestine | Sarah Irving | Electronic Intifada
November 2, 2015 The work of Jerusalem-born photographer Steve Sabella has appeared in exhibitions, books, magazines and documentaries across the world. Now, in a luxurious large-format art book —...
Why Paris' first festival of Arab Photography is so Important | Olivia Snaije | CNN
12th January 2016 As Paris' inaugural contemporary Arab photography festival draws to a close, visitors are reflecting on the importance of the event, which began three days before terrorist attacks...
Re-Cconstructing Dasein: The Works of Steve Sabella | Charlotte Bank | IMEU
March 28, 2016 The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once said about the condition of exile, “Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland,...
Steve Sabella | Kevin Jones | Artforum
Nov 2014 Steve Sabella | MEEM GALLERY If Steve Sabella’s 2013 series “Independence” were music, it would be trip-hop—a suave, steady beat wrapped in a sullen, ethereal pall, at once spirited...
Steve Sabella - Photography 1997-2014 Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag | CANVAS Dubai
Nov 5, 2014 4. MEEM GALLERY (A11)Independence, which runs until 6 December, closes the cycle of four exhibitions by Palestinian artist Steve Sabella: Fragments at London’s Berloni Gallery, Layers at...
An Artist Examines the Israel-Palestine Conflict in Dark, Ambiguous Photographs | Stephen Dillon | Artsy
Nov 21, 2014 In his first solo show at Dubai’s Meem Gallery, Palestinian-born, Berlin-based artist Steve Sabella presents a series of new photographic work. Titled “Independence” (2013), the series is...
Liberation as a State of Mind | Jyoti Kalsi | Gulf News
2014 Berlin-based Palestinian artist Steve Sabella is known for his large-scale, abstract and sharp photographs. But his latest show in Dubai, “Independence”, is different. The photographs in this series are...