On an unseasonably warm afternoon, Khaled Sabsabi unveils a new mystical world housed in a humble, cramped, tin shed doubling up as his studio at Fairfield City Museum and Gallery in south-west Sydney.
Beads of sweat drip off him as he strips one layer of protective fabric after the next, to reveal his latest masterpiece Knowing Beyond.
He is scheduled to exhibit Knowing Beyond at the 18th edition of the Adelaide Biennial: Inner Sanctum. The Biennial is curated by José Da Silva, and will be showing in March of 2024.
Sabsabi’s artistic process is slow, the labour is grinding, the craft is measured. Sabsabi likes it this way. It matches his speech and his thought process in its expansiveness, its long drawn-out stretches of punctuated silences. Ultimately, at its heart, he is observing and listening.
Sabsabi’s most recent accolade came in September 2023 when he received the inaugural Creative Australia Award for Visual
