Persistent Worlds
Alice Bucknell
10/10 2025—19/1 2026
Gallery 3
Curator: Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
In Persistent Worlds, Los Angeles-based artist and writer Alice Bucknell presents their latest work, continuing their exploration of speculative fiction, ecology, quantum mechanics, and more-than-human intelligences.
Their work emphasizes the interconnectedness of human, non-human, and technological entities, proposing a worldview where such relationships define existence. Utilizing game engines, Bucknell creates immersive scenarios that explore alternative, sustainable realities, which are essential for confronting the crises produced by prevailing modernist paradigms.
While nostalgia for a pre-industrial past persists, returning to it remains impossible. Instead, humanity must radically reimagine its coexistence with nature through the speculative prefiguration of potential worlds rooted in alternative forms of symbiosis. While this can be a difficult process, it can also be very playful. Bucknell’s work seeks to bridge these two poles, cultivating worlds that acknowledge the gravity of the human-induced climate crisis while simultaneously holding space for multispecies coexistence rooted in hope, resilience, and joy.
The term persistent worlds, commonly associated with multiplayer games, refers to digital environments that continuously evolve, independently of active interaction. In the context of this exhibition, it also evokes the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which suggests that each quantum event creates parallel universes that coexist alongside our own.
The exhibition brings together four projects developed over the last two years: Small Void, Staring at the Sun, Nightcrawlers, and The Alluvials. Visitors will navigate through different realities, shifting between quantum and macroscopic scales as they become immersed in expansive video installations and actively participate in cooperative games. Toggling between environments, temporalities, and forms of embodiment, Bucknell’s work aims to ground us in the complexity of the present while expanding the event horizon of possible futures.
