Poisoned Places / Creative Pushback
       
     
I Got Cancer Living Downwind of Trinity
       
     
Quinta-VI
       
     
Poisoned Places / Creative Pushback
       
     
Poisoned Places / Creative Pushback

This gallery explores “sacrifice zones,” places so damaged by industry, war, and neglect that they — and the residents who live there — have been denied the rights of citizenship or ethical consideration and thereby reduced to the status of “bare life,” as described by the philosopher Giorgio Agamben. In 2022, The Guardian described sacrifice zones as places where “tens of millions of people are suffering strokes, cancers, respiratory problems and heart disease as a result of toxic contamination of the environment.” According to David Boyd, United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and the environment, saying “There are sacrifice zones all over the world, in every region: in the north, in the south, in the east, in the west, in rich countries, in poor countries.” The art displayed here reveals the creative resilience and resistance of people living in such places.

I Got Cancer Living Downwind of Trinity
       
     
I Got Cancer Living Downwind of Trinity

Tina Cordova, American

2023

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Quinta-VI
       
     
Quinta-VI

N’Dea Tucker, American

2022

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