Works
Transitory Artifacts, A Journey through Time and Media
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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…
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Das Kapital, Version 76, Algorithms, 2025
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 76 Algorithms 2025 Since 1996, Marcello Mercado has been working on an ongoing and unconventional project of reinterpreting the first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx through various formats, including video art, performance art, bioart, net art, experimental photography, 3D rendering,…
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Das Kapital, Version 77, The Weight of the Weights
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 77: The Weight of the Weights An Archive in Transit 1- Channel Video Installation sound, color, 5 minutes 2025 Das Kapital, Version 77: The Weight of the Weights An Archive in Transit . In Das Kapital, Version 77: In The Weight of the…
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Van Gogh Formula, 2025
Marcello Mercado Van Gogh Formula Speculative Formula – Essay 2025 Consider the following expression: Here, V(t) represents the “sales function” of Vincent van Gogh across time: before his birth (), through his life, and long after his death (+). The integral equaling −1 formalizes a paradox: in his…
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Das Kapital, Version 76, Algorithms, 2025
Marcello Mercado Das Kapital, Version 76 Algorithms 2025 Since 1996, Marcello Mercado has been working on an ongoing and unconventional project of reinterpreting the first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx through various formats, including video art, performance art, bioart, net art, experimental photography, 3D rendering,…
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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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On the Production of Images and Sounds with AI, 2025
Marcello Mercado On the Production of Images and Sounds with AI 2025 This article examines the interaction between artificial intelligence (AI) and the production of images and sounds, proposing that AI’s fundamental theme is eternity—not as static preservation, but as a dynamic, self-generative process. The central (and only) theme…
