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        …

    The works assembled here span multiple periods and media—including photography, drawing, painting, video, sculpture, artist’s books, and installation. Throughout the collection, forms materialize through accumulation, interruption, translation, displacement, and error. Images shift between physical and digital states; lines acquire volume; recorded material is reorganized; fragments persist through successive transformations. Architectures of Residue brings…

  Chaco refers to this territory: a vast subtropical region extending across northern Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil. It is marked by intense ecological transformation, extractive economies, deforestation, and the persistence of vernacular forms of building. For Mercado, Chaco is not only a place, but also a material archive: a landscape where memory, erosion, labor,…