Twins Cartoon on comics as power, beauty and expression

Art & Photography/2016/24 min/Reel № 16.001

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Twins Cartoon on comics as power, beauty and expression

Experience the Wonder of Creativity/Recorded 2016

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Twins Cartoon takes art & photography as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Egypt in 2016, the conversation is grounded in Twins's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Identical twin brothers Mohamed and Haitham El-seht are at the heart of Egypt’s creative scene.

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Cairo/Egypt

Twins Cartoon is the pseudonym of Cairo-based identical twin cartoonist Mohamed and Haitham El-seht.