Hasan & Husain Essop

Hasan and Husain Essop are twin brothers (born 1985, Cape Town) and currently, live and work in Cape Town. They graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in Printmaking and Photography respectively, and a Postgraduate diploma in Art in 2009. Recipients of the 2014 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art, they exhibited their collaborative photographic series Unrest at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Standard Bank Gallery, National Arts Festival and Iziko Museum, among other venues in South Africa.

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HASAN & HUSAIN ESSOP
Dark Imaam, 2017
Lightjet C-print on Archival Paper
160.5 × 110.5 × 3.5 cm

HASAN & HUSAIN ESSOP
Hulk Habib, 2017
Lightjet C-print on Archival Paper
160.5 × 110.5 × 3.5 cm

HASAN & HUSAIN ESSOP
Saudiman, 2017
Lightjet C-print on Archival Paper
160.5 × 110.5 × 3.5 cm

HASAN & HUSAIN ESSOP
State Fury, 2017
Lightjet C-print on Archival Paper
160.5 × 110.5 × 3.5 cm

HASAN & HUSAIN ESSOP
Usual Suspects, 2020
Pigment inks on cotton rag paper
90.5 x 130 x 3.5 cm

HASAN & HUSAIN ESSOP
Drone Strike, 2017
Pigment inks on cotton rag paper
90.5 x 130 x 3.5 cm

HASAN & HUSAIN ESSOP
Cyber Recruit, 2020
Pigment inks on cotton rag paper
90.5 x 130 x 3.5 cm

HASAN & HUSAIN ESSOP
Refugees, 2016
Pigment inks on cotton rag paper
90.5 x 130 x 3.5cm