  Deconfined strongly interacting QCD matter is produced in the laboratory at
the highest energy densities in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. A selection of
recent results from ALICE is presented, spanning observables from the soft
sector (bulk particle production and correlations), the hard probes (charmed
hadrons and jets) and signatures of possible collective effects in pp and p-Pb
collisions with high multiplicity. Finally, the perspectives after the
detectors upgrades, taking place in the period 2019-2020, are presented.
