The new exhibition Post-Colonial Humanoids by interdisciplinary artist Mustafa Batıbeniz has opened at ARUCAD Art Space in Nicosia. Drawing on Cyprus’s post-colonial memory, the exhibition brings together humanoid beings inhabiting an imagined world. Inspired by cinema, architecture, and fashion, these figures merge past and future, inviting reflection on identity, the body, and remembrance. Titled Post-Colonial Humanoids, the exhibition will be on view at ARUCAD Art Space until January 31.

ARUCAD Art Space, the contemporary art–focused meeting point of Arkın University of Creative Arts and Design (ARUCAD), continues to host events in the fields of art, architecture, and design.

The solo exhibition Post-Colonial Humanoids by architect, photographer, lecturer, and illustrator Mustafa Batıbeniz brings the artist’s interdisciplinary practice together with art audiences at ARUCAD Art Space. Departing from the multilayered memory of post-colonial Cyprus, the exhibition creates humanoid beings living in an alternative universe. Nourished by cinema, architecture, and fashion, these hybrid figures explore the possibilities of a post-human future through their mutated bodies, forms intertwined with architecture, and states of in-betweenness. This world—where hyperreal, surreal, and childlike spatialities intersect—constructs a retro-futuristic atmosphere that evokes Freud’s notion of the “uncanny” (Unheimlich) and Turner’s concept of “liminality.” Within a fiction where machine, home, and human archetypes merge, viewers encounter an aesthetic that is at once nostalgic, unsettling, and mesmerizing. Post-Colonial Humanoids transforms the historical layers of Cyprus into a global postmodern mythology, offering a new perspective on identity, the body, and memory.

The exhibition Post-Colonial Humanoids will be open to visitors at ARUCAD Art Space, located on Müftü Raci Efendi Street in Nicosia, from December 23, 2025 to January 31, 2026, Monday to Friday between 09:00–18:00, and on Saturdays between 09:00–13:00.