On WhatsApp she has a frame from 8 1/2, by Fellini, because it is a film full of self-references: Mastroianni is at the same time a character and the director of the film; he holds auditions for actresses who then appear in it. Gemma de les Coves (Barcelona, 1984), theoretical physicist and ICREA research professor at UPF, studies the limits of what we can describe, calculate and understand, and she likes how art dives headfirst into these paradoxes, without the fear of conventional logic.