Alegría Castillo Roses (Córdoba, 1985) and José Antonio Sánchez Piñero (Chiclana de la Frontera, 1975) both graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Granada and have been working as an artistic couple (Alegría and Piñero) since 2009.
Their creative processes are defined as a circular gaze that generates multiple perspectives on the same centre (Encicloscopio), giving rise to long-running projects such as “Prueba de Fuego” (2009-2016), a series comprising eleven works that investigate the germinal nature of the static image, bending it to elicit from its larval time that which it strives to conceal; and “Enciclolalia” (2014-2022), a research project that focuses on the phenomenology of speech to reveal what is hidden behind language, subjecting it to exercises that place the voice beyond the throat, the tongue and the lips, and finds it between the hands, the mud and the air.