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2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize Limited-Edition Print Series
Aperture Foundation is excited to announce a new addition to the limited-edition photographs program. To encourage the collection of work by emerging artists, Aperture will offer special limited-edition prints by the winner and runners-up of the Aperture Portfolio Prize. The Prize competition takes place every summer and is judged by Aperture's editorial and curatorial staff. The purpose of the Prize is to identify trends in contemporary photography and specific artists whom we can help by bringing their work to a wider audience. In choosing the first-prize winner and runners-up, we are looking for work that is fresh and that hasn't been widely seen in major publications or exhibition venues. Aperture is pleased to offer our collectors work by these talented artists. Proceeds from the sales of these prints will benefit both the artists and Aperture Foundation.
Artist's Statement
"In the Roman Catholic Tradition 'Limbo' is the supposed abode of the souls of un-baptized infants and of the just who died before Christ. The word explains also an intermediate state or condition of awaiting a decision.
I have always been living in a sort of limbo. Two parallel worlds coexisting, one defined by the country I lived in, the other residing in my dreams and heart. At one point in space and time, I decided to walk and photograph one of those places in which the two worlds collide: the border
This project has been conceived as an art installation that attempts to remind us that, despite laws and political positions, statistics and economic matters, immigration is about human beings.
It includes a series of photographs of places along the border between the US and Mexico, a collection of personal belongings found on immigrant's paths and roads in the Arizona desert and videos of immigrants' interviews during their journey to the north.
I have used the border as a metaphor of the separation. In a world in constant change and with populations shifting places at a rapid pace, the sense of belonging (to a country, to a culture), and the concept of identity are being redefined constantly."—Hector Mata
Hector Mata (b. 1963) moved to the U.S. from Peru over a decade ago, after living in Russia for four years. He was a staff photographer for Agence France-Presse from 1991–2007. Mata is now an independent photographer and filmmaker. More of his work can be found on his website. Limbo will be exhibited at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in May 2009.
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