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Materials / Energy, 2006
Marcello Mercado Materials / Energy Single-channel video installation 20 min. 49”, black and white, stereo, 2006 In this piece, Marcello Mercado presents a gesture that encapsulates one of the most significant shifts in contemporary art at the beginning of the 21st century: the transition from material objects to…
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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, Volume I is stripped…
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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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The Ulysses Syndrome in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Marcello Mercado The Ulysses Syndrome in the Age of Artificial Intelligence An Individual Strategy in Response to Algorithmic Seduction 2025 The expansion of generative artificial intelligences has established a new technical regime of production, perception, and decision-making. In this context, the concept of the Ulysses syndrome in the age of AI…
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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_B
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…
