This is the most significant exhibition to date for Lebanese born and Australian-based artist Khaled Sabsabi. It features a selection of his works produced over a twelve-year period, including works not previously exhibited.

Sabsabi works across multiple mediums and his art deals with concepts of nationhood, identity and change. Since the late 1980s, the artist has worked with communities on arts projects that explore place, displacement, marginalisation, and ideological differences associated with the human condition.

All of Sabsabi’s works at The Lock-Up resonate as a conversation piece and panorama of the artist’s practice, which is heavily informed by his biography and his interest in tasawwuf spirituality, more widely known as Sufism, a practice within Islam. In this moment of renewed global shifts of intolerance, these works intended to dialogue with one another, conveying a complex landscape of history and personal experiences that express the apprehensions of an increasingly uncertain world.