Untitled 12 (2017) is a 12-panel work reflecting Marwan Rechmaoui’s exploration of geography and materiality. Responding to the shifting and ever-changing contours of Lebanon’s coastline, the work interrogates how spatial information is perceived, conceived and experienced. Through a deliberate selection of materials, Rechmaoui challenges the limitations of the conventional mapping processes. He chooses cement to represent the built, dense terrain of land and malleable beeswax to embody the ever-moving fluid body of water. A thin brass wire separates the two surfaces, acting as a threshold aesthetically and conceptually. When brass oxidises over time, it turns bluish green, a transformation that could symbolise natural growth between land and sea. Additionally, as a thermal conductive, this brass divider evokes the fluid, yet volatile relationship between natural environments and human interventions. By accounting for both the real geographical components and the physical qualities of the materials selected, Rechmaoui highlights the discrepancies between lived perception and empirical data.