The Interrupted Image at the Nicholas Robinson Gallery. Participating artists include Wafaa Bilal, Birgit Graschopf, Bob Knox, Rashid Rana, Steve Sabella.

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Selected by curators Simon Njami, Monica Santos and Sandra Mauna for a large Arab Contemporary Art Group Exhibition towards the end of 2010. Exhibition starts in Spain.

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Steve Sabella: In Exile
By Charlotte Bank
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2010/steve_sabella

"...These contorted passageways through his own psyche led the artist to the roots of his wounds and gave him an inkling of the possibility of healing. While the destructiveness of being uprooted was at the center of In Exile, Sabella’s newest works move, release and liberation into the foreground. Euphoria (2010) alludes to the blissful feeling of being freed of mental fetters. This feeling – possibly short-lived, as the artist himself concedes – is expressed in playful-seeming, uprooted trees..."

Artwork on the Front & Back cover of the 6th edition of Contemporary Practices Art Journal. The same artwork is going for a Christie's auction April 27, 2010 for the International Modern and Contemporary Art (Dubai).

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Steve Sabella - The Journey of Artistic Interrogation and Introspection
Retrospective Review by Yasmin El Rashidi
Contemporary Practices Journal, VI, 2010

Palestinian-born artist Steve Sabella could well be a younger, more alternative, more artistic version of the late Edward Said. Like the literary exile who lived in an enclave of a world he had created for himself on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, surrounded and consumed and embedded in the construct of texts that deconstructed the reality he struggled with, Sabella is one who lives in an equal state of alienation – confined to an exile that transcends place: London, and rather is contained in the bounds of his mind. A mind that like Said’s did deconstructs only to rebuild again, but in this case, using a terminology of visual narratives.

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Steve Sabella
Retrospective by Martina Corgnati
Review Contemporary Practices Journal, VI, 2010

From 1997 on, the images, series and projects of Steve Sabella are periscopes drowned in the invisible of human condition, the uncanny and the search for a meaning; an “exile” that starts as physical and contingent and ends becoming mental, a category of the soul that needs an answer, or a series of answers from each one of us; answers that change – evolve during a lifetime. So, Sabella raised the horizon to his own eyelevel: From a contingent one to a universal one, escaping every rhetoric, though not losing his identity as an artist, but on the contrary, conquering it.

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