The meeting between water’s material properties and its symbolic significance can be seen in the work of Ella Littwitz “Red Mercury” which responds to the question of territorial water and examines the reaction of water from different boundary regions and with different legal status to a metallic substrate. Territorial water is considered an integral part of a state’s sovereign space, but how can that territory be marked on unstable material? Where does the border pass if water is constantly moving? Does water from a conflict zone have different properties than ex-territorial water?
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