Awesome Western-Sydney artist Khaled Sabsabi gets the solo show treatment at Art Gallery of NSW, in partnership with the Campbelltown Art Centre.
Sabsabi and his family fled Tripoli and headed to Sydney with in the 1970s to escape the Lebanese civil war. Starting out on the hip-hop scene, he shifted to visual arts in the '90s. Regularly returning to the Middle East, his incredible body of work draws on the confluence of spiritual belief, politics and conflict in the region.
A Promise presents major works exploring the complex relationship between self and other and includes large-scale works from AGNSW’s collection, like ‘Organised confusion’ (2014), putting the fanaticism and Western Sydney Wanderers football fans under the lens, as well as new works.
The first solo artist exhibition to launch since the gallery reopened, director Dr Michael Brand said A Promise is a poignant reminder of the role of art and artists during challenging times. “We are delighted to have collaborated with Khaled on A Promise. His work resonates in new and unexpected ways at this time when our collective behaviour, beliefs and responsibilities have such urgent and apparent ramifications.”
The exhibition will run for an indefinite period.
