Sacrifice Zone

Sacrifice Zone confronts territorial exploitation and its lasting consequences. The project documents how extraction practices reshape landscapes and asks what happens to a territory when economic systems claim it as a resource.

This project explores the concept of sacrifice zones through sites across Galicia designated for resource extraction. It examines how these operations have impacted the landscape and degraded the territory.

Sacrifice zones are geographic area, usually sites of intensive industry or significant natural resources, chosen for extraction and development. They are places where economic gain takes priority, and environmental and social issues become secondary to corporate interests.

The work documents the marks left on Galician landscapes by decades of water, land, and wind exploitation. Understanding landscape as a form of territorial identity, it traces how dams, mines, eucalyptus plantations, and wind farms have reshaped the territory, leaving visible scars of extraction.