I create my artworks with a combination of mathematics and digital 3D modelling, primarily using the software Blender, and printing in Hahnemühle FineArt paper.

The key element of my artworks is the use of impossible figures that contain one or more spatial contradictions, such as floors that suddenly become the roof, walls that appear to be facing in and out at the same time, and figures with ambiguous direction and depth.

These geometric paradoxes capture the viewer's attention as they try to understand what is going on, and why do these figures feel so odd to look at. That feeling of curiosity and understanding is something that I have had a lot of fun discovering, and I hope I can share it with you through my artworks.

My formation was primarily as an astrophysicist.

I did my bachelor and master degrees in Chile, where I am originally from. Then obtained my PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany, and afterwards worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy in Heidelberg, studying the formation and evolution of young solar systems, a topic which I find really fascinating.

And yet, parallel to my academic journey, I was also learning digital 3D art on my spare time. I loved the 3D aesthetic, and I liked that I could experiment and move things around the virtual scene, though I didn’t imagined that I would take it beyond a hobby.

That did change however during the last year of my PhD, when I found about the art of “impossible figures” in the works of M.C. Escher, Oskar Reutersvard, and specially in the puzzle game Monument Valley. I felt that those artworks combined everything I liked, both from mathematics and arts, and that I really needed to learn how to create them on my own, and thus I grabbed a notebook and started studying…

In the coming years (while still working as a researcher) I had the opportunity to showcase my artworks in digital art magazines, have my first solo exhibition in Heidelberg at the Paradoxon, and participate in a group exhibition with the Station Kreation collective in Herxheim Kunstgarten. With these experiences I felt that I finally needed to explore my artistic aspirations professionally, and so, with the support of my family, my friends and my colleagues, I decided to close my cycle in academia and start a new one as an artist.

Now I live in Luxembourg with my spouse, where I hope to stay, and from where I hope to create more paradoxes to share with you.

Arts

• 2026: Euler Days - Luxembourg Science Center (Differdange, Luxembourg).

  • Talk and Exhibition: Impossible Worlds and Paradoxical Geometries.

  • Workshop: Design your own Tessellation.

• 2025: Exhibition “Between Illusion and Shelter” (Lasauvage, Luxembourg)

  • Duo exhibition with Roberta Mestieri.

  • Organized by the Ville de Differdange.

• 2025: Talk, Exhibition, and Workshop at Bridges: Mathematics and the Arts (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

  • Talk: “Paradoxical Figures That Adapt to the Viewer's Relative Position”.

  • Workshop: “Design your own repeating pattern”.

  • With the support of Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg.

• 2025: Talk at About.Design (Bad-Nauheim, Germany), “Designing Paradoxes”.

• 2024: Group exhibition “Hidden Gems II”, Kamelle Buttek (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg).

• 2024: “Biodiversity Mosaic” workshop at Natur Musée Luxembourg with the Beelibre Team.

• 2023: Talk at the Blender Conference (Amsterdam, Netherlands), “Modelling impossible figures”.

• 2023: Group exhibition at Station Kreation "Kunstgarten" (Herxheim, Germany).

• 2022: Solo exhibition “Impossible Geometry”, PARADOXON - Kunst und Kultur e.V. (Heidelberg, Germany).

• 2020, 2021: Articles about my art technique at Sketchfab Art Spotlight and 3D World Magazine.

Academia

• 2020 - 2023: Postdoctoral researcher (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany)

• 2017 - 2020: PhD in Astronomy (Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany)

• 2015 - 2017: Master in Astrophysics (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago de Chile)

• 2011 - 2015: Bachelor in Astronomy (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago de Chile)

During my time in academia I:

• Presented my research in 24 conferences and seminars.

• Published 16 articles in scientific journals (7 as first author).

  • List of publications here.

• Worked as teaching assistant for 7 university courses.

• My research subject was “Numerical simulations of protoplanetary disks”.