Joana Moya

"Humans took out in less than a century what the mountains had kept for over 300 million years." In the geological time scale, everything dissolves. Memory is fragmented, folded over, and the boundaries between the living and the inert are blurred. “La Koreana” is the story of an iron mountain near Bilbao that was brutally exploited from the late 19th century onwards. However, it could be any mountain, any territory. “La Koreana” is also a place for reflection for those who live there: Where does a people keep its memory? ask the miners amid their ruins. I ask myself how our memory continues to alter both the past and the future.