Sexy oils, on canvas and ceramic

BEIRUT — These days, Sfeir-Semler’s downtown gallery is hosting “Intimate Trespasses,” an exhibition of Bayan Kiwan’s new work.The pieces on show — eight canvases and eight ceramics — are all oils from 2025. More from Jim ‘Slow Burn’: Diggin’ for fire at Beirut Art Center The artist divides her time between Amman and New York, and these works have been touched by the cruel realities of the contemporary U.S. and MENA region.There is no trace of violence in “Intimate Trespasses.”"All words will fold their wings," 2025, oil on canvas, 180 x 140.5cm. (Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery) Its pieces depict couples, captured mid-embrace, often reclining into one another, eyes closed, or portraits of individual faces sculpted by anxiety.This work might be read as a series of studies around trauma. ICYMI: Last week's...