Steve Sabella TV Documentary Jerusalem | Arutz 1
2004 Arabic with Hebrew subtitles Steve Sabella TV Documentary Jerusalem 2004 from Steve Sabella on Vimeo.
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Jerusalem in Exile | Eyes Infinite Films
2006 Jerusalem in Exile is a film that explores and searches for the visual images of Jerusalem in the nostalgic minds of Palestinians globally. In this film photographer Steve Sabella...
Steve Sabella: An Encounter | Karin Adrian von Roques | Scavi Scaligeri Museum in Verona | Maretti Editori
2014 Note 2 Steve: ever restless, born 1975 in Jerusalem. grew up in this city with its long-lasting conflict between Israel and the Palestinian claim to human justice. It is...
Discoveries of a Mental Journey | Beatrice Benedetti | Scavi Scaligeri Museum Verona | Maretti Editori
2014 The Scavi Scaligeri International Centre for Photography is hosting Steve Sabella: Archaeology of the Future, the first solo exhibition by this artist of Palestinian origin in an Italian...
Walls and Margins | Nat Muller | Barjeel Art Foundation
2015 Steve Sabella’s series of photographic collages Metamorphosis (2012). The work featured in the exhibition shows segments of the Separation Wall multiplied in a dizzying motif. There is no top...
In the Wake of the Poetic: Palestinian Artists After Darwish | Najat Rahman | Syracuse University Press
2015 In Steve Sabella’s haunting work In Exile, images recurrently depict a somber but meticulously constructed exile. Each image seems to repeat and proliferate images of houses or apartments,...
Steve Sabella: Creative Interpretation or Visual Deconstruction? | Madeline Yale Preston | Tribe
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...
Shifting Sands: Photography and Beyond | Trent Morse. | Art+Auction
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....
Steve Sabella – Photography | Dorothea Schoene | Journal for Palestine Studies
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...
A Drift | Rebecca Anne Proctor | Harper’s Bazaar Arabia
January/February 2015 As the artist himself shares. ‘Once we are locked inside the images of ourselves, these images take on a life of their own… [They] often outlast us and...
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...
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...