Afterimages / Alice Bucknell, Maia Naveriani, Echo Seireeni

Alice Bucknell (b. 1993, London) - artist, writer, and educator based in Los Angeles. Their work explores the affective dimensions of video games and virtual worlds as interfaces for understanding complex systems, relations and forms of knowledge. Their work has been presented at transmediale, the Venice Biennale, Singapore Art Museum, and Serpentine, among other locations. Their writing appears in publications including ArtReview, e-flux, frieze, Mousse, and the Harvard Design Magazine. In 2024, they were a grantee of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, recipient of the Collide Residency at CERN, and artist-in-residence at EPFL’s Enter the Hyper-Scientific program in Lausanne. Bucknell received an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. They are currently faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. 

Maia Naveriani (b. 1966, Tbilisi) studied under Gia Edzgeveradze before completing her formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi. Having moved to London, in 1989, she was nominated by Annely Juda Fine Art for the the Vordemberger Gildewart Foundation international prize in 1999, which she won. 

Echo Seireeni (b. 2003, Los Angeles) is a London-based multidisciplinary visual artist. Her figurative oil paintings explore ideas of digitization, consumer culture, climate crisis, hyperviolence and catharsis. Her richly detailed works draw on feudal imagery and historical symbolism to explore contemporary anxieties about consumerism, digital warfare, and the inescapable authority of hierarchal corporate systems.