Copper Tales (2022) is based on the copper extraction site of the Río Tinto mines in Spain. Starting from the idea that raw materials are extracted to satisfy our embodied desires, I approach these operations through the living. How are our bodies connected with the extraction of ore ? Río Tinto, the red river leaving the mines, is the starting point of my project. Its colour is the result of bacterial activity due to extraction. Several temporal layers interact on the place. The ore extraction site has been in operation since the Roman Empire. In 1888, the English company that owned the mines reacted in violent repression against the miners demonstrations. In 2015, the CAB (Centro de Astrobiología) and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) hypothesised the presence of riverlike bacteria on Mars and began analyses. In the meantime, human bones were found at the extraction site, which subsequently became an archaeological site. The project takes form as an installation consisting of a book, videos and prints. In the book, Thrice Happy If They Know Their Happiness And Persevere Upright, different temporal and spatial traces created by bodies interact and project this extraction site into the exploration of space and a perpetual quest for raw materials. For example, an allegorical representation of the perseverance enters in a dialogue with the actual search in the Río Tinto mines and river of NASA and CAB. Perseverance is both an allegorical figure near a river, the name of the rover going to Mars, and the human extractivist attitude. The two pictures part of the diptych Acidithiobacillus are made by the bacteria on the photographic film immersed in the river. In the videos, these elements are made sensitive and alive through my body filmed on site, linked to the point of view of the bacteria. Through my project I hope to have brought sensitive bodies back into the extraction of raw materials.