Enigma is defined in the Chambers 20th Century Dictionary as “anything very obscure; a mysterious person or situation; a riddle. In Haslin Ismail’s context in art, it can be a complex being or machination that mixes sci-fi with surrealism. Haslin’s projection of cyborgs, half human and half machines, is a literal manifestation of Friedrich Nietzche’s ‘Ubermensch’ (Superman/Beyond Man), as in his Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883). The day of grown (cultured) human organ transplants is very near, while the broken body is increasingly replenished with parts like pace-makers, titanium rods, false teeth (braces), and scientific self-healing . The predicted proliferation of maid-robots or sex robots (sexbots) with A.I. (artificial intelligence) will change the basis of human relationships. Haslin obtained his BFA at the Universiti Mara Institute of Technology in 2005-2007. In 2006, he won the Grand Prize in the In-print competition and received a sponsored two-week trip to study printmaking at Gray’s School of Art and Design. His two major awards are the Young Guns (HOM Art Trans, 2013) and the Major Award in the Young Contemporary Artists (Bakat Muda Sezaman) in 2011, the year he was selected for the Rimbun Dahan art residency. He won 1st Prize in the Manga Artists competition (2008), Visual Art Pitch (My Creative Ventures and Chandan Gallery, 2006), the Visual Art Award at Starhill Gallery, Kuala Lumpur (2010). After his first solo, Exorcismus Persona – Windows into the Fantasy Worlds of Haslin Ismail, at RA Fine Arts, Kuala Lumpur, in 2012, he hooked up with G13 gallery, Selangor, for three solos namely Transfiguration (2013), Mindmix (2014); Book Land (under G13) in the 2014 Art Stage Singapore. The Merdeka! Exhibition at Galeri Petronas featured him and Samsudin Wahab, two of the most exciting young artists, in 2014. Among the notable group exhibitions he was featured in include Un-cut Malaysian Arts Festival in Gallery Shambala in Copenhagen, Absurd(c)ity at the National Art Gallery in 2013, the Kembara Jiwa exhibitions in Yogyakarta and Bandung in Indonesia in 2012, and the Art Expo Malaysia in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2015.