Marcello Mercado: The Torment Zone, Clouds, Emptiness
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The Torment Zone, Clouds, Emptiness
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The work is an imaginary visit to a national mental hospital guided by animated cartoons. The title implies enclosure, in this case the predominance of the medical-psychiatric discourse and the legal helplessness faced in the treatment of madness, and an artistic approach to psychiatry as torture.
