Between Exits | Paintings by Hani Zurob | Kamal Boullata | Black Dog Press
2013 "Two artists and fellow travellers with children growing up away from home may find their inspiration in their offspring, but each goes his own way when it comes to...
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Fragments From Our Beautiful Future | Jill Bumiller | The Bumiller Collection Museum | Kerber Verlag
2017 In 2016, the University Museum for Islamic Art in Berlin launched the Contemporary Interventions in The Bumiller Collection exhibition series in collaboration with Taswir Projects, showcasing the Syrian artist...
Collecting Notes to and For the Future | Nat Muller | Kerber Verlag
2017 Brittle shards of wall enshrined in vitrines mix with a colorful, contemporary take on Arabic illuminated manuscripts. There are timeworn chess pieces and mirrors too. Time seems to ping-pong between...
From the Prolegomenon of Steve Sabella: Photography 1997 – 2014 | Hubertus Von Amelunxen | Kerber Verlag
2017 If we understand irony as a riposte or a horror on the part of a counterpart, a negation embracing the exist- ing and employing the affirmation of the existing,...
An Aesthetics oF Dis/Placement: Steve Sabella’s 38 days oF Re-Collection | Ella Shohat | Kerber Verlag
2017 Steve Sabella’s 38 Days of Re-Collection (2014) suggestively conveys the thrust of the idea of displacement. As metonym, “displacement” signifies the actual movement from place to place, and as...
Beyond Finitude: Steve Sabella’s 38 days of Re-Collection | T.J. demos | Kerber Verlag
2017 How does one materialize the grief of geopolitical dislocation and historical injustice—in this case, that of the occupation of Palestine—into a mode of sensibility, one that isn’t captured by...
Fragments From our BeautiFul Future | Almút sh. Bruckstein | Kerber Verlag
2017 "Sabella’s archaeological-seeming fragments, peeled from the Old City walls of his native Jerusalem with a surgeon‘s care and precision, reach deeper into layers of time and memory. He then...
Fragments | Berloni Gallery | Solo Exhibition | London
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Palestine | I am the Land and the Land is You | Venetia Porter | The British Museum
2021 "Printed onto a piece of yellow limestone from Jerusalem is an old black and white family photograph of two children playing with a horse in an area close to...
Book launch + Film Screening | The Photographers' Gallery | London
2014 "Steve Sabella is considered one of the most thriving artists from Palestine today. The 15-minute-documentary gives an insider view of the artist's practice, in which photographic technique and material...
Steve Sabella Photography | CANVAS Dubai
2015 This 208-page hardback cover is Steve Sabella's first monograph, which looks at the Palestinian artist’s work over the last two decades. The cover is a detail of a work...
Steve Sabella Photography | Kate Steinmann | Prefix Photo
2016 "We cannot be defined by our relationship, positive or negative, to Israel," Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine's de facto national poet, once insisted. Darwish's vision is both borne out and tested...
Foreword | Steve Sabella Photography | Kamal Boullata | Hatje Cantz
2014 Since the third century, when Philostratus was recorded to have been the first to describe pictures he claimed to have seen in a gallery, writing on visual images...
Decolonizing the Imagination: Steve Sabella’s Parachute Paradox | Lily Kelting
2018 Exile is not only a form of division, but of multiplication. Edward Said, in his “Reflections on Exile,” expresses this multiplicity in aesthetic terms: “Most people are principally aware...
"عصر الجوهر والخيال والعمل الشاق": مقابلة مع الفنان الفلسطيني ستيف سابيلا |
2020 "الأرض الحرام" هو عمل من ثلاث لوحات فوتوغرافية بعرض ستة أمتار، وقد تم، إبرازه أيضاً، ضمن عرضللمتحف الفلسطيني بعنوان "اقتراب الآفاق: التحولات الفنية للمشهد الطبيعي"، هل يمكنك أن تتحدث...
The Era of Essence, Imagination and Hard Work | Interview with Palestinian artist Steve Sabella | A.M Qattan Foundation
2020 “No Man’s Land” is a six-metre-wide photographic triptych, which was also featured in the Palestinian Museum’s show Intimate Terrains: Representations of a Disappearing Landscape. Can you tell us about...