Fazal Sheikh
Hadija and Her Father, Badel Addan Gadel, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya

Hadija and Her Father, Badel Addan Gadel, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya

© Fazal Sheikh

Hadija and Her Father, Badel Addan Gadel, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya
Hadija and Her Father, Badel Addan Gadel, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya
ArtistAmerican, born 1965
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Hadija and Her Father, Badel Addan Gadel, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya
  • from the series A Camel for the Son
Date1993, printed 2016
Place depictedMandera, Kenya
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 24 5/8 × 19 in. (62.6 × 48.2 cm)
Sheet: 30 11/16 × 24 15/16 in. (77.9 × 63.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Jane P. Watkins
Object number2017.39
Non exposé

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Description

“I spent weeks
at the feeding center, run by Médecins Sans Frontières, where Somali women
brought their children
for
medical attention and where the malnourished children were placed under a
feeding program until their weight was stabilized. This often took months as
many of the children had secondary illnesses
and some remained in the feeding center for more
than a year.





“Hadija and her father often sat apart from the other families in the
feeding center. In the first few days, I watched as she moved silently through
her treatment. Her father and the feeding center staff would talk to her but it
seemed that either she failed to understand what was going on around her, or
refused to respond. She never struggled against those who helped her, but
neither did she act on her own. I was told that she and her parents had fled
from their village in Somalia after an attack by a rival clan, and during the
flight Hadija’s mother had been separated from her and her father. Although he
searched for his wife, Hadija’s father failed to find her. Eventually, the two
of them continued on to Mandera in the hope that the mother would be traveling
in the same direction. But she never arrived and ever since their separation
Hadija had been mute.”—Fazal Sheikh




ProvenanceThe artist; [Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom center: Hadija and her father, Badel Addam Sadik, Somali refugee camp, Mandera, Kenya, 1993 ©Fazal Sheikh

Additional back label, signed and titled in ink, stored in the accession file:
HADIJA AND HER FATHER, BADEL / ADDAN GADEL / SOMALI REFUGEE CAMP / MANDERA, KENYA 1993 / © (signature)
Signed in pencil, verso, bottom center: Hadija and her father, Badel Addam Sadik, Somali refugee camp, Mandera, Kenya, 1993 ©Fazal Sheikh

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