Photography
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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,…
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Das Kapital, Version 78, DELETEORIUM
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 78: DELETEORIUM (Deletion Space, Deletion Room) 2025 DELETEORIUM: Das Kapital, Version 78 is the speculative and dissident expansion of the project initiated in Das Kapital, Version 76. In this new version, three languages coexist in collision: the grapheme, the self-collapsing algorithm, and…
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Run
Marcello Mercado RUN Photography 2025 Run: A Photographic Fugue in the Post-Digital Landscape Marcello Mercado, 2025 In RUN, Marcello Mercado radically displaces the generative image. Through a series of 54 black-and-white photographs taken in Germany, South Africa, Argentina, and Denmark, the artist presents constructed…
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Autorretrato en estado de archivo
Marcello Mercado Autorretrato en estado de archivo 2025 Esta serie de autorretratos en blanco y negro está formada por escaneos tridimensionales de la cabeza del propio artista. Cada imagen ha sido reconstruida digitalmente mediante algoritmos de inteligencia artificial y tratada con técnicas visuales que oscilan entre la precisión anatómica…
