In this second chapter of a two-part project between Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales and Campbelltown Arts Centre, A Hope surveys over two decades of artist Khaled Sabsabi’s practice, from his earliest works through to a recent new commission titled 40, 2020 – which, at the centre of the exhibition, considers common social values that are inspired by our collective realities and human condition.
Khaled Sabsabi, MUSH, 2012, five-channel HD video sculpture installation, audio, wood, wire, aluminium and paint. Photograph: Pedro de Almeida. Courtesy the artist, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Artspace, Sydney and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Highlights include MUSH, 2012, where gridded networks of images are projected onto a suspended cube interlacing everyday suburban and outer urban spaces of both domesticity and worship in Australia, West Asia and North Africa to examine change as a method for the ebb and flow of how culture is perceived; and a recreation of Aajyna, exhibited in Arabmade at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Western Sydney, in 1998 – uses multisensory triggers such as scent and vibration to reflect one of Sabsabi’s earliest memories from the Lebanese civil war.
Campbelltown Arts Centre
4 January to 13 March 2022
Sydney
