Acceptance in Khaled Sabsabi’s ‘A Promise’
Sabsabi told William Verity on Radio National about a childhood memory from the Lebanese civil war: ‘I remember one image, there was an open truck … from the olive fields … above Tripoli. It was lined with bodies. I remember … looking down from my grandmother’s verandah. I could see mothers/people searching through (the bodies) and blood had turned to brown.’ An intense experience from a world in reverse. Yet Sabsabi has turned that experience into a promise for integrity and harmony.
Watching people looking at Sabsabi’s ‘A Promise’ in the Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW)’s Asian Gallery, I found the types of encounters intriguing. There were those catching images on their phone while taking in the
