‘Slow Burn’: Diggin’ for fire at Beirut Art Center

BEIRUT — Four landscape-shaped color images are suspended from wires. Their glossy black surfaces capture clusters of light.They might be photos of hot coals in a brazier, or clouds of gas and dust found by a space telescope.The image at the center of one print resembles the flaming skull of a lower primate. More from Jim The woman who inked Shakespeare’s quill: ‘Hamnet’ review In fact, Gabriella Choueifaty’s 2025 study “The autumn garden isn’t enough for our impatience” is grounded in Lebanon.Her subject is soil and rubble, collected from four locations — in Mount Lebanon, Dahyeh, Jisr al-Wati, and southern Lebanon.The pieces are part of her ongoing project “Dark is a Color,” inspired by the power cuts that enveloped several months of Lebanon’s recent collapse. The title is borrowed from Etel Adnan.A detail from Awfar’s "Is it...