by Marcello Mercado (Argentina, 2000)
The work, based on the works of Karl Marx, questions the role of the image in modern society. When making the video, Mercado used resources of image treating and inverted the number format of the video frames, creating a gray image between the artificial cruel images and scenes of real corpses.
Marcello Mercado, video artist, performer and fine artist living in Germany, creates works that mix animation techniques with anthropological and political thought. He won the 12th edition of Videobrasil (International Festival of Electronic Art), in 1998, with the video The Warm Place. His most ambitious project has been to publish on the Web an animated comic strip with 200 chapters called Mutter.
