{"id":9002,"date":"2022-06-15T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=9002"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:22:39","slug":"featured-artist-steve-sabella-beyond-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/featured-artist-steve-sabella-beyond-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Artist: Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9003\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevesabella.com\/the-great-march-of-return\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9003 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1-1320x1320.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steev-sabella-the-great-march-of-return-2019-copyright-3000x3000-1-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Sabella, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stevesabella.com\/the-great-march-of-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Great March of Return<\/a>,&#8221; 2019 \u2014 a collage including over 1,000 photographs captured by five Palestinian journalists from Gaza of the crowds who have gathered every Friday from March 2018 to end the Israeli occupation. These images are contrasted with photos taken of outer space merging the hermetically sealed Strip with infinity, creating a monumental \u201cpresent-day fresco\u201d demonstrating a nation\u2019s eternal fight for liberation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 data-aos=\"hero\" data-aos-anchor=\"#rte--template--15860038795499__16477939096b46ff31\" data-aos-order=\"2\"><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"h4 standard__heading aos-init aos-animate\" data-aos=\"hero\" data-aos-anchor=\"#rte--template--15860038795499__16477939096b46ff31\" data-aos-order=\"2\">Steve Sabella, Beyond Palestine<\/h2>\n<p>An artist, photographer, writer and world citizen, Steve Sabella is our featured artist for <a href=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/category\/tmr-22-stories\/\">TMR 2 \u2022 STORIES<\/a>, as his phenomenal range of inquiry and expression transcends borders and identity, reaching the universal.<\/p>\n<div id=\":5j4\" class=\"Ar Au Ao\">\n<div id=\":5jb\" class=\"Am Al editable LW-avf tS-tW tS-tY\" tabindex=\"1\" role=\"textbox\" contenteditable=\"true\" spellcheck=\"false\" aria-label=\"Message Body\" aria-multiline=\"true\">\n<p>Born in Jerusalem, Palestine, he is a Berlin-based international artist using photography and art installation as his primary forms of expression. His research focuses on the genealogy and archaeology of the image. He is the author of the award-winning memoir, <em>The Parachute Paradox<\/em>, published by Kerber Verlag (Berlin, 2016), tackling the colonization of the imagination. The book won the 2017 Eric Hoffer Award and the 2016 Nautilus Book Awards for best memoir.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9068\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9068\" style=\"width: 581px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevesabella.space\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9068\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-in-his-studio-in-berlin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-in-his-studio-in-berlin.jpg 581w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-in-his-studio-in-berlin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-in-his-studio-in-berlin-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-in-his-studio-in-berlin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-in-his-studio-in-berlin-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevesabella.space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Sabella<\/a> in his Berlin studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2008, Sabella received the Ellen Auerbach Award by nomination from the Akademie der K\u00fcnste in Berlin, leading to a monograph covering twenty years of his art published by Hatje Cantz (Berlin, 2014) with texts by Hubertus von Amelunxen, president of the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and a foreword by artist and art historian Kamal Boullata who described Sabella\u2019s work as a dream to discover.<\/p>\n<p>Sabella studied three years art photography at the Jerusalem School of Photography Musrara (1994-1997). He received a BA in Visual Studies from the State University of New York in 2007. Through a Chevening Scholarship in 2008, he earned a master\u2019s degree in Photographic Studies at the University of Westminster, London, graduating with a Caparo Award of Distinction, granted to the highest achieving scholar in the art university. In 2009, he earned his second master\u2019s in Art Business at Sotheby\u2019s Institute of Art, London.<\/p>\n<p>Sabella\u2019s art is in the British Museum collection in London. MATHAF, The Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, where he was one of the 23 artists commissioned for its inauguration in 2010. The Arab World Institute in Paris has twenty artworks in their permanent collection. Bahrain National Museum upon a commission to interpret the country visually. Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo. Claude &amp; France Lemand, Ramzi &amp; Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Salsali Private Museum in Dubai, Barjeel Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Platform Kuwait, the Samawi Collection, among other museums &amp; prominent private collections.<\/p>\n<p>Sabella exhibited with curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, directors of Hamburger Banhof Museum in Berlin, in\u00a0<em>Told, Untold, Retold\u00a0<\/em>for the opening of MATHAF. With Bartomeu Mari, Marco Bazzini and Christine Macel, curator of the 2017 Venice Biennale, in\u00a0<em>Nel Mezzo del Mezzo<\/em> at Museo Riso in Palermo. With Venetia Porter, in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa at The British Museum in London. Sabella participated in art biennales, including the First Biennial of Photography from the Arab World at the Maison Europ\u00e9enne de la Photographie and Institue du Monde Arabe, Paris (2016). FotoFest Biennial, View from Inside, Houston (2014) curated by Karin Adrian von Roques; and at Les Rencontres d\u2019Arles (2013), France.<\/p>\n<p>Sabella\u2019s many solo exhibitions include a major retrospective at the International Center for Photography Scavi Scaligeri Museum in Verona (2014), <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/2755\/2235\/files\/Achaeology-of-the-Future-Catalgue-Steve-Sabella-Retrospective-Exhibition-Scavi-Scalegeri-Museum-Verona.pdf?v=1647266400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Archaeology of the Future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard__rte font--5 columns--2 aos-init aos-animate\" data-aos=\"hero\" data-aos-anchor=\"#rte--template--15860038795499__16477939096b46ff31\" data-aos-order=\"3\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Elsewhere (2020)<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9004\" style=\"width: 752px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevesabella.space\/collections\/elsewhere\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9004 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Steve-Sabella-Elsewhere-1-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Steve-Sabella-Elsewhere-1-2020.jpg 752w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Steve-Sabella-Elsewhere-1-2020-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Steve-Sabella-Elsewhere-1-2020-600x597.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Steve-Sabella-Elsewhere-1-2020-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Steve-Sabella-Elsewhere-1-2020-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Sabella, &#8220;Elsewhere XV,&#8221; 70x70cm, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>\u201cElsewhere\u00a0is a journey to the land that once was, the land, the place that lives in our imagination. This is my seminal work after all those years of looking into images digging to discover their hidden realities. I recently wrote about how the archaeology of the future is the archaeology of the image and its genealogy.\u00a0<\/em><em><strong>These are black and white images, photochromes from nineteenth century historic Palestine<\/strong><\/em><em>, with a few images from Syria and Lebanon, colored in the past to give them a sense of reality. I collaged them, recreating the feeling of the place, as if one had traveled through a time machine and was suddenly present.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevesabella.space\/pages\/elsewhere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit the Elsewhere page here<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Everland (2020)<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9009\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9009\" style=\"width: 752px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevesabella.space\/pages\/everland\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9009\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in-1320x1320.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/steve-sabella-everland-2020-5-1680x1680Everland-2020-Photography-Fine-art-paper-mounted-on-diasec-80-\u00d7-80-\u00d7-4-cm-31.5-\u00d7-31.5-\u00d7-1.6-in-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Sabella, &#8220;Everland,&#8221; a collage of Palestinian embroidery, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The nine squares of Everland is a photo collage of Palestinian embroidery decorations sewn and woven on a wide variety of traditional costumes. This disappearing tradition is passed from generation to generation by women who sew patterns and motifs to reveal their heritage, ancestry, and place of origin. The embroidery is derived from geometric forms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Everland celebrates all the charm that comes out of Palestine, a place where everything gets disrupted. Yet, the collage-style enables the different cross stitches, among other techniques, to penetrate deep into new borders, creating unique designs that look as if they represent every other culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Every time Everland will be on display, the squares will be put in a different constellation, including their orientation to any side. This way, everland will always have endless possibilities, creating a new visual, forever changing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevesabella.space\/pages\/everland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit the Everland page<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevesabella.space\/collections\/all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the list of Steve Sabella collections<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artist and writer from Palestine has a universal vision to bring people together across boundaries and 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