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The Parachute Paradox – Decolonizing the Imagination
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Steve Sabella – Photography 1997-2014
Hatje Cantz and Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2014
Texts by Hubertus von Amelunxen
Foreword by Kamal Boullata (PDF)
Designed by onlab
read Hubertus von Amelunxen’s essay “Translation” (PDF)
The Parachute Paradox
Kerber Verlag, 2016
By Steve Sabella
Fragments From Our Beautiful Future
Kerber Verlag, 2017
Texts by Hubertus Von Amelunxen, Ella Shohat, A.S. Bruckstein, T.J. Demon, Nat Muller, Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh, Marleen Stoessel and Elliot R. Wolfson.
Foreword by Jill Bumiller
Designed by Ta-Trung
Published for the Fragments From Our Beautiful Future exhibition
The Bumiller Collection, Berlin, Germany
May 19 – August 13, 2017
read T.J. Demos’ essay “Beyond Finitude: Steve Sabella’s 38 Days of Re-Collection” (PDF)
New Vision – Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
TransGlobe Publishing and Thames & Hudson, 2009
Edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi, Salwa Mikdadi & Nada M. Shabout
“Five groundbreaking essays offer the best context to date for contemporary Arab art. These are followed by some 90 superbly illustrated profiles of key artists, organizations and galleries. Mixing the well known (such as Mona Hatoum or Susan Hefuna) with the up and coming (for example, Steve Sabella or Mireille Astore).”
One of the most important themes running throughout all of Sabella’s work is the concept of exile, the result of growing up in a divided city such as Jerusalem: ‘As far as I remember I always felt out of place in my city of birth. Alienation was surrounding me. Kamal Boullata [another Jerusalem artist] remarked…how I function like an artist in exile even though I lived in my city of birth. It took me a few years to understand the meaning of his words. I was not “physically” in exile. It was Jerusalem that was exiled and hence…all those who lived in it were in exile.’
Archaeology of the Future
Maretti Editore, 2014
Texts by Karin Adrian von Roque ‘Steve Sabella: An Encounter’, Beatrice Benedetti ‘Discoveries of a Mental Journey’, Leda Mansour ‘In the Darkroom with Steve Sabella’ and Steve Sabella ‘Archaeology of the Future’
Published for the Archaeology of the Future solo exhibition International Center for Photography Scavi Scaligeri, Verona, Italy
In collaboration with Boxart Gallery (Verona) and Berloni Gallery (London)
October 8 – November 16, 2014
read Archaeology of the Future by Steve Sabella (PDF)
view full catalogue (PDF)
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
Pluto Press, 2017
By Ella Shohat
Winner, Best Memoir, Palestine Book Awards (2017)
read Ella Shohat’s foreword on the works of Steve Sabella (PDF)
steve sabella studio book projects
The Artist’s Curse
To be published in 2020
The Artist’s Curse takes the form of a series of short reflections and pieces of advice, fragments that together form a well-rounded and dimensional text about the art world, written from the perspective of a practicing artist. In September 2017, Sabella began publishing a new passage—or “curse”—online every day. The content of these short-form texts can range from revelatory notions of the artist’s life to revealing rogue practices of the art world. Each are titled separately, and can read like prose poems or compacted theses. Psalm-like, they invite a daily glance, a meditation, or a pragmatic choice.
view The Artist’s Curse website
Palestine UNSETTLED
Help to publish this book this summer by pre-ordering it now at 65 euros and save 19% VAT and the shipping costs anywhere in the world.
Palestine – UNSETTLED ” is a photo book using its white pages like walls. Exhibited within its space are 160 breathtaking images transporting you on a unique voyage to Palestine.
Winner of the AFAC grant in 2017
exhibition catalogues
Fragments
For the Fragments solo exhibition
Berloni Gallery, London, UK
March 7 – May 10, 2014
Independence
For the Independence solo exhibition
Meem Gallery, Dubai, UAE
October 8 – November 16, 2014
Including:
Free Falling into the Future by Madeline Yale Preston (PDF)
In Conversation with Steve Sabella
by Madeline Yale Preston (PDF)
Foreword by Meagan Kelly Horsman (PDF)
view full catalogue (PDF)
visit Meem Gallery website
Layers
For the Layers solo exhibition
Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait City, Kuwait
September 22 – October 21, 2014
Including:
Beyond Palestine by Malu Halasa (PDF)
Foreword by Abed Al Kadiri (PDF)
view full catalogue (PDF)
visit Contemporary Art Platform website
German Cool
For the German Cool group exhibition
Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE
November 16, 2016 – March 19, 2016
In Exile
For the In Exile solo exhibition
Metroquadro Gallery, Rivoli, Italy
May 6 – July 17, 2010
Including:
Conversation with the Artist by Sara Rossino (PDF)
view full catalogue (PDF)
visit Metroquadro Gallery website
Première Biennale Des Photographes Du Monde Arabe Contemporain
(The First Biennial of Photographers of the Contemporary Arab World)
(French)
For the Première Biennale Des Photographes Du Monde Arabe Contemporain group exhibition
Arab World Institute, Paris, France
November 11, 2015 – January 17, 2016
view pages on Steve Sabella (PDF)
view full catalogue (PDF)
Walls and Margins
(English/Arabic)
For the Walls and Margins group exhibition
Barjeel Art Foundation, Shajah, UAE
October 21, 2015 – February 1, 2016
Including:
Perturbed Visions essay by Nat Muller (PDF)
view pages on Steve Sabella (PDF)
Yalla Shebab Film Festival // 2015
(Italian)
Cineporto, Lecce, Italy
Organized by Association MENA
June 12 – 15, 2015
view page on Steve Sabella (PDF)
View from Inside: Contemporary Arab Photography, Video and Mixed Media Art
Schilt Publishing, 2014
For the Fotofest Biennial group exhibition
Houston, Texas, USA
March 15 – April 27, 2014
Abu Dhabi Festival, Abu Dhabi, UAE
March 21 – April 21, 2015
Texts by by Karin Adrian von Roques, Claude W. Sui, Samir Mohda and Mona Khazindar
Recreational Purpose
Edited by Noura Al Sayeh and Sulaf Zakharia
For the Recreational Purpose group exhibition
Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain
April 13 – August 15, 2014
Including:
Recreational Purpose: Bahrain Revisited by Sulaf Zakharia (PDF)
Seeing and Unseeing Through Recreational Purpose by Nat Muller (PDF)
Insider/Outsider Photographers and the Intra-cultural Tourism Landscape by Isabella Ellahah Hughes (PDF)
Foreword (PDF)
Keep Your Eye On The Wall
Saqi Books, 2013
Edited by Olivia Snaije and Mitchell Alber
For the Keep Your Eye On The Wall group exhibition
Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
July 2 – September 23, 2013
Photoquai Biennial, Paris, France
September 12 – October 2, 2013
Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait City, Kuwait
March 12 – April 12, 2014
With foreword by Raja Shehadeh
order on Saqi Books
vist Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie website
visit Photoquai Biennial website
Les Recontres d’Arles Photographie
Actes Sud, 2013
Edited by Jean Noël Jeanneney
For the Keep Your Eye On The Wall group exhibition
Les Recontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
July 2 – September 23, 2013
order on Actes Sud
visit Les Rencontres d’Arles photographie website
The Changing Room: Arab Reflections on Praxis and Times
Edited by Aida Eltorie
For The Changing Room group exhibition
Metroquadro Gallery, Turin, Italy
September 22 – October 22, 2011
Including:
Steve Sabella in conversation with Sara Rossino (PDF)
visit the Metroquadro Gallery website
Told, Untold, Retold
23 Stories Through Time & Space
Skira Books, 2011
For the Told | Untold | Retold group exhibition
MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Curated by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
30 December 2010 – 28 May 2011
view pages on Steve Sabella (PDF)
Palestine: la Creation dans tous ses Etats
(Palestine: Creation in All Its States)
Edited by Mona Khazindar and Djamila Chakour
For the Palestine: la Creation dans tous ses Etats group exhibition
Arab World Insitute & Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, France
June 23 – November 22, 2009
Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain