Fragmented Fantasy (2023) explores safety, belonging and refuge through abstract dreamscapes in virtual reality. Rooted in personal experience and religious narratives of heaven and hell, it invites audiences to question how safe spaces are imagined and constructed. Developed and produced through the Extended Ecologies: XR Research and Production Lab (MedRX Portal) in 2023. Only one visitor can experience the VR work at a time; places will be limited.

Part of Memory Library, 14–21 November 2026. Find our more here. 

Artist Bio:

Ahmed Nader (b. 1998) is an Egyptian interdisciplinary artist working across immersive media, 3D modelling, installation, and virtual reality. A 2020 graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Oil Painting, his practice evolved from painting toward conceptual and system-based investigations of technology, perception, and memory. Nader explores how digital infrastructures reshape identity, embodied experience, and collective memory, treating technology as a structural system rather than merely a tool.

Drawing from Egyptian social and cultural contexts, he reconfigures vernacular narratives, inherited cultural codes, and collective histories within virtual environments. His work examines systems of memory, observation, cultural transmission, and algorithmic subjectivity.