This research topic is a fragmental approach and also an effort for interpreting the existence of the water element in the world of artistic images, not just as a mere representation but in it’s raw and unwrought materiality and changeability. There are going to be presented five fragments of the liquid condition, according to a chronological order:

1. The horrifying water as an element of the Sublime in Maelstrom of Edgar Allan Poe.
2. The various levels of the aspect of the liquid element in Marcel Duchamp’s work Étant Donnés: 1. La chute d’ eau, 2. Le gas d’ Éclairage.
3. Water within the context of Hans Haacke’s real-time systems.
4. The liquid element as a substance for Jeff Wall’s image reproduction.
5. The sacred supremacy of water in the works of Nikos Alexiou.

 The liquid links witch are being developed between these five fragments and have as a fundamental characteristic their liquid transparency, are sufficient for revealing indiscernible connections, subjections and correspondences of this selection. What these liquid links also do is to pose them in the light of a common interpretation, giving us the opportunity to render “liquidity” into a fundamental metaphor of contemporary era. In the end, certain allegories of their liquid and unstable inhabitations and their spatial opportunities remain questions to be answered.

 Finally, this review of the liquid condition seems to be the starting point for posing certain questions about contemporary art and it’s relationship with architecture, under a minute analysis. These questions witch affect art such as architecture, have to do with the spatial sense, experience and production and also with symbolisms, systematizations and representations and aesthetic, political and social references.