Mustafa Batıbeniz’s new exhibition Post-Colonial Humanoids brings together humanoid beings inhabiting an alternative universe shaped by the multi-layered memory of post-colonial Cyprus.
Drawing inspiration from cinema, architecture, and fashion, these hybrid figures explore the possibilities of a post-human future through mutated bodies, architecturally fused forms, and liminal modes of existence.
Blending hyperreal, surreal, and childlike spatialities, the exhibition establishes a retro-futuristic atmosphere that evokes Freud’s notion of the “uncanny” (Unheimlich) and Victor Turner’s concept of “liminality.”
Within a construct where machine, home, and human archetypes converge, viewers encounter an aesthetic that is simultaneously nostalgic, unsettling, and mesmerising.
Transforming the historical layers of Cyprus into a global post-modern mythology, the exhibition offers a renewed perspective on identity, the body, and memory.
Drawing inspiration from cinema, architecture, and fashion, these hybrid figures explore the possibilities of a post-human future through mutated bodies, architecturally fused forms, and liminal modes of existence.
Blending hyperreal, surreal, and childlike spatialities, the exhibition establishes a retro-futuristic atmosphere that evokes Freud’s notion of the “uncanny” (Unheimlich) and Victor Turner’s concept of “liminality.”
Within a construct where machine, home, and human archetypes converge, viewers encounter an aesthetic that is simultaneously nostalgic, unsettling, and mesmerising.
Transforming the historical layers of Cyprus into a global post-modern mythology, the exhibition offers a renewed perspective on identity, the body, and memory.