Nationality South African Name Hasan Husain | Role Artist Known for Photography | |
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Born 1985 Cape Town Awards Spier Contemporary 2010 (career development prize) | ||
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Hasan and Husain Essop are twin South African Artists who live and work in Cape Town. Focusing on photography, their work concerns the role of the individual in society. They are especially interested in the role of young Muslim males in a secular environment and have documented their own experiences across the globe. In their digitally composited photographs, the artists use only themselves as subjects, as Islam forbids the depiction of the human figure. By limiting their representations in this way, Hasan and Husain create personal - rather than objective - experiences.
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Career
Both Hasan and Husain received their BA Fine Arts in 2006 and their Postgraduate Diploma in Art from University of Cape Town.
Shown at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, in 2011, Indelible Marks is a series of twenty photographs concerning the role of religion in modern secular society.
Last Supper in Havana is a notable work from their 2010 exhibition Halaal Art.
Exhibitions
