Rojo Fulgor
Site specific Light installation, 2025, Santiago de Chile

El movimiento aparente del sol y los gradientes de color en el cielo están profundamente arraigados en nuestra imaginación. Aunque el cielo se percibe como una cúpula estática, es en realidad una vasta extensión de gases en constante transformación. Si pensamos la luz como la condición que posibilita la visión, y lo visual como luz, podemos sentir que estamos inmersos en la luz de la atmósfera.

Rojo fulgor es una instalación lumínica que trabaja con la sutileza en los cambios de color de la luz, desdibujando la percepción del tiempo y el espacio, y generando una especie de estado suspendido. Se propone una experiencia de estar en la luz, en la que lo sensorial y lo emocional se entrelazan. Mediante dispositivos lumínicos integrados en la arquitectura, se construirá un entorno poético que combina investigación científica y resonancia afectiva.

La luz, al igual que el sonido, es un fenómeno temporal. Su constante transformación permite crear atmósferas envolventes que afectan nuestra percepción de manera sutil pero profunda. Si bien el sol emite todas las longitudes de onda del espectro visible, las ondas que percibimos como “rojas” son las primeras que alcanzan nuestros ojos cuando el sol se encuentra a mayor distancia —al atardecer o al amanecer—. ¿Qué relación existe entre este hecho científico y las implicancias emocionales, sensibles y poéticas de ese color?

Me interesa indagar en ese núcleo profundo, en esa corriente submarina invisible que configura la estructura de una sensación fluida, cambiante, casi imperceptible, como los cambios de color del cielo.

En este marco, se incorpora también el concepto de cromosaturación, desarrollado por Carlos Cruz-Diez, como referencia para pensar la inmersión total en el color. No como un fin en sí mismo, sino como una herramienta para potenciar la percepción del color como una realidad autónoma y viva.

La instalación se materializó en el foyer del segundo piso del Teatro Universidad de Chile, en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile. Aprovechando su arquitectura —donde la luz artificial realza la morfología de los techos—, se intervinieron las gargantas de luz del espacio. Se trabajó con gradientes lumínicos inspirados en los colores del cielo durante la puesta de sol: tonos rojizos, cálidos, envolventes y una animación de 7 minutos. El rojo de la alfombra se integra como un elemento activo, potenciando la experiencia inmersiva.
fotos y video: Luis Bahamondes
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Machines of Joy
Light installation, 2025, DEVCON Buenos Aires

“Artists do not create objects, but create by way of objects.” James P. Carse, Infinite Games

Machines of Joy is an electronic garden composed of light-emitting robots and electronic waste. Conceived as a small universe of its own, the installation constructs a system in which material, conceptual, and informational elements interact through circulating signals.

The title reflects the intention to create devices that, although built from discarded technology, emit light, color, and movement capable of evoking perceptual connection. These machines are not tools of utility but instruments of sensation, inviting viewers to engage with the interplay between artificial and natural elements. Through their motion and luminosity, they suggest forms of renewal, transforming electronic waste into sources of vitality and poetic experience.

The installation draws inspiration from the apparent movement of the sun around the Earth and the atmospheric colors it generates. Each robot reproduces gradients drawn from the sky and is designed to sense and respond to their surroundings in movements recalling the rhythms of planetary motion. The installation turns these natural phenomena into poetic objects, approaching light through both its physical qualities and its sensible effects, and drawing on knowledge about natural light to reveal its emotional resonance and its relationship with the universe.
It was presented in the group exhibition Echoing as one, which took place during the Ethereum International Conference in November 2025 in Buenos Aires.


ph: Tomo Saito & Delfina Levi

Wave
Video/Light installation, 2025

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  LINEAL
 Light object, 2024

Inspired by the natural light decomposition and observable color gradients in the sky, this object emerges as a fusion of art and design. LINEAL stands as the initial product in a series with a singular objective: to create an experience of light and color that transforms our inhabited spaces.

LINEAL is materialized into a functional object using digital manufacturing technologies, electronics and LED devices. The interaction between different materialities generates a support for the gradient whose colors are calibrated using electronic components.

Due to their manufacturing process, although they are produced in series and have similarities, each LINEAL is unique. The result is a luminous object that produces its own sky, radiating color and warmth.

LINEAL is a lighting object resulting from the collaboration between the light artist Magdalena Molinari and the FUGA studio, made up of industrial designers Ignacio Avilés and Lucila Beren.
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Fotoesferas
Light land art installation, 2022

Fotoesferas investigates the capacity of light to form territories that produce a multiplicity of sensations. It is about the creation of light topographies (light land art) formed from the artificialization of natural phenomena, more specifically, the display of the chromatic spectrum that the sun's rays produce when they refract in the earth's atmosphere.

A series of light-emitting devices specifically designed and manufactured for this purpose emit digital light at different frequencies, modulating different colors and rotating on their own axes in a choreography that simulates the infinite movement of the planets. Arranged in the territory, the artifacts configure light cones of different depths and heights, generating encounters and disagreements with each other and with the ground, defining a materiality and a cyclical but changing light texture.video