Portfolios

  • Photography Systems

    Photography Systems

    Antology, 2000-2025.

  • Systems, Images and Temporalities

    Systems, Images and Temporalities

              1. Transitory Artefacts, A Journey through Time and Media +   A selection of works produced between 2000 and 2025 exploring archives, algorithms, language and technological transformation across video, installation, photography, drawing and AI-generated media. The projects examine how information shifts between systems, media and temporalities.   Das Kapital, Video…

  • Three Studies on Operational Images

    Three Studies on Operational Images

                Images are approached as operational surfaces: captured, transformed, transmitted and reconstructed through biological, algorithmic and media systems.         1. Marcello Mercado, Non Pixel: 33 Archaeologies of the War Signal , 2026     Non Pixel: 33 Archaeologies of the War Signal examines images after their collapse…

  • Image as Failed System

    Image as Failed System

              Works in which drawings, image files, digital errors and material surfaces operate as unstable systems of registration.         Marcello Mercado, Untitled (Diptych)Inkjet print on white vinyl canvas, 60 × 90 cmCollage with fabric remnants, adhesive and paper on canvas, 30 × 40 cm2026        …

  • Architectures of residue

              Marcello Mercado is a German–Argentine artist living in Argentina. He works across video installation, drawing, photography, and sculpture. His work investigates error, residue, and the unstable threshold between digital and organic forms.         Marcello Mercado, Day/Night, Photography, 2003       Marcello Mercado, Glitches_Diaries of Pure_Desktop, 20122-channel…

  • Matter, Memory, Construction

                Marcello Mercado is an Argentine artist based in Germany whose work moves between collage, sculpture, installation, and digital media. Since the early 1990s, he has worked with organic and discarded materials—especially palm bark, fibers, and residues collected in the Gran Chaco region of northern Argentina. Chaco refers to this…

  • PORTFOLIOS

    PORTFOLIOS

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