Drawings become signals. Objects become records.
Images become data. Biological processes become systems.
Marcello Mercado, a German–Argentinian artist, operates with images as unstable states rather
than fixed entities. Through translation across biological, digital, and material systems, images are
displaced, fragmented, and reconfigured.
Mercado works across drawing, painting, installation, moving image, bioart, and artificial intelligence.
These are not separate disciplines, but operational layers within the same process.
Rather than stabilizing images, the work exposes how they transform, degrade, and persist as signals,
residues, or incomplete states.
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Rather than beginning with the image as a stable entity, the work starts with its conditions of transformation.
The focus is on how images behave as they pass between different systems, with each transition
producing variation rather than continuity. Drawing, painting, the moving image, and computational processes
function as distinct yet interconnected modes within this structure.
The result is not a stable form, but rather a sequence of transformations that cannot be fully resolved.
Marcello Mercado
Untitled (Drawing), 2024. Charcoal and graphite on paper.
Marcello Mercado
Untitled (Digital Drawing), 2000. Inkjet print on vinyl, mounted on stretcher.
Marcello Mercado
RD, 2025. Acrylic on canvas, 60 × 80 cm.
Marcello Mercado
Untitled, 2026. 3D collage on inkjet print on vinyl, 60 x 80cm.
Marcello Mercado, Unstable Evidence, 2026. Selection.
