His practice seeks to push boundaries between visual media and social engagement, employing still and moving images, multimedia installations, placemaking, and sound-based performances as sites of contestation and testimony.
While J. Paris’s ongoing Investigation explores the entanglements between stigmatised social experiences and contemporary built-environments. He is particularly interested in immersing modes of historiography: archiving through regenerative and hospitable notes.
Installation view ‘Curtain Call’ 2025, documented by Mitsi Moulson Studio.
Installation view ‘Curtain Call’ 2025, documented by Mitsi Moulson Studio.
Stills from ‘Monte de Estradas’ 2025, Cinematography by Hugo Barros.
Stills from ‘Humming as a Praxis’ 2025, documented by Ricardo Fortes.
Installation view ‘Home Is Where The Body Isn’t.’ 2019, documented by Tim Bowditch.
Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.
Installation view ‘Historiographing’ 2024.
Stills from ‘Humming as a Praxis’ 2025, documented by Ricardo Fortes.