Photography
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Systems of Accumulation, Photo Book, 2026
Systems of Accumulation, 2026 (PDF) Read / Download PDF To view the digital archive as intended, please configure your PDF viewer to: Two-Page View (or Facing Pages) Systems of Accumulation No form emerges complete. It occurs through repetition. One trace approaches another, crosses it, changes direction,…
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FIELD LOG, Photo Book, 2026
FIELD LOG, 2026 (PDF) Read / Download PDF To view the digital archive as intended, please configure your PDF viewer to: Two-Page View (or Facing Pages) FIELD LOG operates as a systematic record of morphological erosion, capturing the threshold at which biological tissue, silicon architectures, and…
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We become, Photo Book, 2026
We become, 2026 (PDF) Read / Download PDF To view the digital archive as intended, please configure your PDF viewer to: Two-Page View (or Facing Pages) We become is a photographic work created through a process of continuous transformation. Deutsch Wir wurden ist…
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Flusser Studies 41 – May 2026 / Special Issue: Vilém Flusser and Artificial Intelligence
Über den menschlichen Kopf als archivische Form The series examines the human head as an archival structure operating at the threshold between representation and material register. Although the images maintain the frontal conventions of portraiture, they suspend its expressive and identificatory functions. The head is treated as a site of accumulation: organic…
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Searching for the Short Version of Hamlet
Performance and photographic sequenceElsinore / Helsingør, Denmarkc. 1999–2000 Searching for the Short Version of Hamlet forms part of a broader investigation into the compression of cultural systems that runs throughout Marcello Mercado’s early work around the turn of the millennium. Developed in temporal proximity to SUMMA – Notationen, the piece explores how…
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Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance, 2015, Book
Marcello Mercado Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance 25 × 20 cm, 240 pages 2015 Bitte Abstand halten / Please keep distance (2015) is a photographic book structured around a paradoxical form of self-representation: a body that appears only through its reflections, traces and mediations. Mercado constructs a visual field populated…
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Dead Code Anatomies, 1990 – 2025
Marcello Mercado Dead Code Anatomies Installation 1990 – 2025 Dead Code Anatomies is a series of four algorithmic scripts that address the mechanisms by which physical violence is filtered, refracted, and suppressed by systems of procedural representation. Each work is based on a black and white analog photograph taken in 1990 using…
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Poly-Auto-Portraits 02
Marcello Mercado Poly-Auto-Portraits: Unstable Configurations of the Self Photographic Series 2025 In this new series, the concept of self–portraiture is expanded to the point that the boundaries of recognizable facial representation are dissolved. These poly-portraits are not merely superficial variations or controlled exercises in multiplication. Instead,…
