Fazal Sheikh
Latitude: 31°0’60”N / Longitude: 34°43’4”E

Latitude: 31°0’60”N / Longitude: 34°43’4”E

© Fazal Sheikh

Latitude: 31°0’60”N / Longitude: 34°43’4”E
Latitude: 31°0’60”N / Longitude: 34°43’4”E
ArtistAmerican, born 1965
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Latitude: 31°0’60”N / Longitude: 34°43’4”E
  • from the series Desert Bloom
DateOctober 9, 2011, printed 2016
Place depictedBīr Haddāj (near), Israel
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 × 23 1/2 in. (40 × 59.7 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/2 × 28 1/4 in. (52.1 × 71.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Jane P. Watkins
Object number2017.94
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Abu Asa family homestead in the vicinity of the Bedouin town of Bīr Haddāj. The dark circular stains
in the center of the image indicate the former presence of livestock pens for
camels, goats, and sheep. Each year, the pens are shifted and the former space
disinfected by fire. The stains remain, becoming lighter with each rainy
season. Such traces help gauge the minimum duration of the Bedouins’ presence.
In 1978 Bīr Haddāj was declared a closed military area, forcing its inhabitants
to relocate. In 1994, when they learned that land on which they had previously
settled had been converted into a moshav (cooperative farm), the Abu Asa family
returned.




From the publication The
Erasure Trilogy, Volume 4: Desert Bloom (Notes)
(Göttingen:
Steidl, 2015).







ProvenanceThe artist; [Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[signed verso in pencil]

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