Estoy flotando en fluidos procariota-eucariota.
Estoy evolucionando hacia un ecosistema
gobernado por microbios.
Estoy entre la nucleación del agua
y un planeta muerto.

My body reflected in countless transparent objects and their contents.

It is an absent body, in spite of all the signs, alarm devices, commands and controls.

Modulation of body plans on plots marked with disturbance-vectors, 

from one side to the other of the entrails. I will not remain complete.

 

Marcello Mercado is an Argentinian-German contemporary artist whose practice unfolds at the intersection of painting, drawing, media art, bioart, performance, and time-based media. Grounded in research-as-practice, Mercado’s work systematically investigates the relationships between technological infrastructures, biological processes, and contemporary aesthetic regimes.

His painting and drawing emerge as conceptual fields where gesture and materiality engage algorithmic noise, compression artifacts, and post-digital textures. These works neither oppose nor nostalgically evoke the history of the medium; rather, they metabolize fragments of digital culture—sedimenting traces of code, obsolescence, and abstraction—into layered surfaces that refuse resolution.

In parallel, Mercado’s media art and bioart projects articulate experimental methodologies that traverse artificial intelligence, archival strategies, genomic materials, and infrastructural logics. His installations and videos often reconfigure canonical cultural references—from Van Gogh’s sunflowers to Marx’s Das Kapital—into complex systems of visual, textual, and algorithmic translation.

Mercado’s practice consistently questions the conditions of image production, memory, and representation in an era defined by technological acceleration and systemic noise. His work does not simply illustrate the entanglement of human and machine, organic and synthetic; it inhabits these entanglements, staging encounters between material surface and digital structure, corporeal trace and algorithmic abstraction.

His projects have been exhibited internationally at major cultural institutions, museums, biennials, and innovation labs, reflecting an evolving dialogue between contemporary art, science, and speculative archiving. Working between Argentina and Germany, Mercado continues to explore how artistic methodologies can intervene in processes of knowledge production, proposing hybrid forms where critical inquiry, aesthetic experimentation, and material intelligence converge.