Habeeb Mohammed Abu-Futtaim
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Water Borders (2016)
45 minVideo Water Borders reflects on the aftermath of revolutions that, instead of yielding liberation, gave way to failure and despair—forcing countless refugees to abandon their homelands, crossing waters in search of refuge. This passage reveals the precariousness of borders: not merely as geopolitical markers, but as fragile constructs—lines drawn on shifting waters.
Through the dissolution of forms made of salt (see Salt Bricks (2017)) evoking Arab nationalistic symbols, the work interrogates the fragility of the ideologies that sustain such divisions. These eroding shapes become metaphors for the ephemeral nature of borders—unstable, porous, and incapable of containing the complexities of human experience.
Image of the work from the exhibition "The Blue Hour" at the Santa Cruz International Biennale 2016, Santa Cruz, Bolivia