Works
Transitory Artifacts, A Journey through Time and Media
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Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht, 2014
Marcello Mercado Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht 25.5 × 25.5 cm, 60 pages 2014 Seven Sunflowers Deleted / Sieben Sonnenblumen gelöscht (2014) is an artist book conceived as an operation of translation and erasure. The project takes as its point of departure the seven painted versions of Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh,…
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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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Material Transfer Unit, 2025, PAINTING
Material Transfer Unit, 2025Painting-collageDried plants, leaves, seeds, vegetal adhesive compounds, putty, metallic insulating foil, plastic foil, neon100 × 80 cm At first glance the painting appears wrapped rather than painted. Transparent plastic stretches across the surface in overlapping layers, catching the light unevenly and producing a skin that is at once…
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VIDEO SELECTION
VIDEOART Video works — Selection The body of video works developed from the 1990s to the present is articulated not as a sequence of discrete pieces, but as an operational field in which moving images function as a system of inscription. Video does not appear here as a representational medium or a…
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Das Kapital (Restrictions), 2005 – Artist’s book
Das Kapital (Restrictions), 2005 Artist’s book This artist’s book belongs to the series Das Kapital and operates as a material archive of minor gestures, residues, and peripheral economies. Composed of twenty plastic pocket-pages, the book holds broken golf tees collected from golf courses, used golf gloves, and domestic photographs of German…
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Das Kapital (Grocery Ledger), 1997
This grocery ledger, recovered in 1997 shortly before the definitive closure of the shop where the artist’s grandparents used to buy their provisions, constitutes one of the earliest foundational gestures of the long-term project Das Kapital. It does not originate from ownership of capital, but from participation in its everyday circulation. The pages…
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Text as Territory (1998)
Text as Territory (1998) In Text as Territory, a series of graphic works produced in 1998, language ceases to function as a vehicle of transmission and instead becomes a contested spatial field. Fragments in Latin from Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations and newspaper reports drawn from the Georgian press—originating in a…
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Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, 2015
In Bestiary for the Minds of the 21st Century: Genomic Opera, the book is presented as a physical apparatus in which biological processes, algorithmic operations and sensory translations converge to form a tangible sequence that defies the neutrality of the archive. Each page acts as a threshold between systems of inscription. Genetic sequences…
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Capital Part 1 – version 2015
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital Teil 1 – Version 2015 Marcello Mercado Das Kapital Teil 1– Capital Part 1, version 2015 1 channel video-sound installation, 15 min. 58″ stereo 4:3 black/white and colour http://vimeo.com/133179369 Das Kapital unfolds as a long-term investigation into how political-economic critique can be translated into images—how theory…
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The Hypergaussian War – Installation – 73min
Marcello Mercado The Hypergaussian War IA Video installation, color, sound, 73 minutes 03″ 2025 The Hypergaussian War is a video installation combining artificial intelligence, generative 3D rendering, real-time audiovisual processing, and electronic sound composition. It depicts an experimental war between obsolete video game avatars re-emerging within an interactive simulation where media art,…
