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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...
Photograph by Palestinian artist to be auctioned | Alice Johnson | Gulf News
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...
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...
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 —...