We Came Whirling Khaled Sabsabi’s A Hope
KHALED SABSABI’S SOLO EXHIBITION SURVEYS OVER TWENTY YEARS OF HIS WIDE-RANGING PRACTICE, USING CIRCULAR METAPHOR TO CONCEPTUALISE THE RHYTHMS OF LIFE, POLITICS AND FAITH. WHAT EMERGES IS AN INCISIVE ENGAGEMENT IN CURRENT GEOPOLITICAL DEBATES, AN AFFIRMATION OF THE PLACE OF SPIRITUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY, AND AN ABIDING COMMITMENT TO WESTERN SYDNEY.
ounded by the followers of the poet and mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, the Mevlevi, or Mawlawiyya, is a Sufi order originating in Konya in south-central Turkey. They are commonly known in the West, somewhat inscrutably, as the “whirling dervishes,” for their ritual () performed as part of (remembrance of God) ceremony. Through a rejection of the ego (), the dervishes seek communion with the divine through a
