Works
Transitory Artifacts, A Journey through Time and Media
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Between Bodies and Circuits 2010–2025
Marcello Mercado – Between Bodies and Circuits This selection brings together works produced between 2010 and 2025 that explore the translation between biological, algorithmic and visual systems. From bio-performative gestures to post-photographic reconstructions and algorithmic archives, these works examine the ways technology transforms perception and embodiment. Each piece functions as a node in a…
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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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HOS Image: Waiting as an algorithmic form: The image as a promise, 2025
Marcello Mercado HOS Image: Waiting as an algorithmic form: The image as a promise 2025 (German) (Spanish) 1. At the threshold between generation and expectation, this installation presents an image that does not yet exist. A recurring system message, trapped in its own…
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Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital, 2025
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital Artist´s book 2025 In Das Kapital, Version 82: Exponential Capital, Marcello Mercado continues his decades-long deconstruction of Karl Marx’s seminal text by replacing its linguistic architecture with a sequence of ungraspable numerical scales. Each chapter and section of Capital,…
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Das Kapital 80, AI: The Political Economy of Algorithmic Moderation
Marcello Mercado Capital, Version 80 AI: The Political Economy of Algorithmic Moderation 2025 Das Kapital IA is a work that translates the critical structure of Karl Marx’s Capital into the contemporary context of generative artificial intelligence. Rather than merely reproducing the sequence of chapters…
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Das Kapital: Bell, Marx and the cycles of absorption, 2005
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital: Bell, Marx and the cycles of absorption Performance/ Installation 2005 The performance, which took place in 2005 as part of the Das Kapital series, unfolded in two phases. First came the installation phase, which involved the material decomposition of Daniel Bell’s The…
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Data Paintings
Marcello Mercado Data Paintings 2024 Marcello Mercado’s Data Paintings create an intriguing tension between painting, art history, and contemporary technological conditions. While the twentieth century exhausted the debate around the “death of painting,” Mercado does not revive the debate nostalgically or reactively. Instead, he repositions it within the logic of the digital economy…
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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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Fuego
Marcello Mercado Fuego (Fire/Feuer) 3-Channel Videoinstallation 3 Minuten loop 2025 Fuego (Fire) is a videoinstallation composed of three monitors arranged at an angle. Fixed cameras record brick kilns where quebracho colorado undergoes a slow combustion process. Five days of fire. Twenty-five days sealed. Smoke rises continuously. The scene remains…
