The Parachute Paradox, Steve Sabella, Kerber Verlag – With a clever and intriguing cover, this book eagerly invites the reader to explore its contents. Perhaps the fact that the author...
April 2015 “It obviously needed a Palestinian artist doing astonishing work to shake the very foundations of the certainty of my view and interpretation.” Quoted above, Amelunxen presents a sweeping...
2008 - Volume IV Steve Sabella’s subversion of stamps, an important marker of the sovereignty of a nation-state, suggests us that the proper attitude toward the post-colonial partitioning of the...
Volume VI, 2010 Palestinian-born artist Steve Sabella could well be a younger, more alternative, more artistic version of the late Edward Said. Like the literary exile who lived in an...
Issue 20 - 2004 Steve Sabella was born in Jerusalem eight years after Israel annexed it. Though he continues to live in Jerusalem’s Old City, none of the photographs he...
2015 In the fourteenth century, the artistic practice of preparing frescoes with a dark reddish-brown earthy pigment began to emerge. Known as sinopia, this method of under painting or sketch...
March 2015 Born in Jerusalem in 1975, Steve Sabella is a Palestinian photographer and installation artist. At the age of 33 he moved to London, and now resides in Berlin....
2015 Steve Sabella: Photography, 1997–2014 is a survey of the oeuvre of Palestinian artist Steve Sabella. With over 160 illustrations, the book gives a full account of both his...
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...
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...
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...
