Khaled Sabsabi
Mush

As an artist and community arts practitioner who specialises in multimedia and installation, Khaled Sabsabi’s work reflects the complex and often loaded space of border identities and identity production, characterised by an ever-changing and conditional nature.

In Mush Sabsabi projects gridded networks of images over four sides of a suspended monolithic cube, interlacing everyday suburban and outer urban spaces of both domesticity and worship in Australia, West Asia and North Africa. Combining imagery of street scenes, people, general and religious architecture, Mush explores varied constructed illusions. Through this installation the artist examines change – whether political, ideological or social – as a formula for the ebb and flow of how culture is perceived.

Khaled Sabsabi was the 2010 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship recipient. The presentation of Mush is supported by the Scholarship, awarded by the NSW government with the generous support of the Helen Lempriere Bequest, managed by Perpetual.