For Khaled Sabsabi, it is in art that we find spaces for an aesthetic resistance against the way things are, a constant movement towards pushing limits and challenging perceptions of who and what we are. On these fringes is where true discourse begins. Unseen examines the complexity between emotions of the inner Self and the representational outer Self. In an attempt to question the Self and how we see and engage with the ideas of the ‘other’ in this time and space. Khaled presents an immersive artwork utilising the evocative scents of coffee, which covers the floor of the Gallery, amidst a series of portraits that are anonymised and veiled through the addition of a layer of coffee wash.

Supported by Create NSW. 

Image: Khaled Sabsabi, Unseen, 2022, ink-jet photograph, ground coffee and acrylic paint. Image courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane © the artist.