HJP is an Angolan art and research practitioner dissecting philosophical, architectonic and scenographic frameworks in relation to enacted modes of power, moral codes and Christian discipleship. His work seeks to push boundaries between visual media and socially engaged practices, using mixed media installations, placemaking, dramaturgy and still-moving-images as sites of contestation.

Supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, Paris’s ongoing doctoral investigation traces the entanglements between stigmatised contemporary built environments and social experiences. It attends to immersive modes of historiography, archiving through regenerative and hospitable notes.

Victoria & Albert Museum
Contemporary And
Rimas e Batidas
Ableton

تأريخ | Historiografar

Visual media Installation

2024, Raid Alena Medina

Developed as part of 1:54 Art Fair in Marrakesh , Morocco at Riad Alena. This visual media installation evolved from research drawing connections across particular timelines, eventscapes and situations that took place during the ending of civil war in Angola [1975 - 2002]. As such the institutionalisation of TPA [Angolan Public Television] in September 1997 untying or difusing colonial propaganda, the registration of Kuduro dance at the Ministry of Culture in January 1998 and the construction of Templo do Deus Vivo building, holding capacity for more than 25,000 believers in Luanda in 2001.

Focusing on visual-mapping methods, J. Paris highlights contracts and projects for Angolans’ religious and social emancipation informing the post-memory generations.The installation uses Youtube footage | archive bringing attention on the question of motion in relation to opacity as a metaphor to make sense of current living conditions and states of faith shared among Angolan communities in both the diasporas and continent.

Contemporary And
Gida Journal

HENRIQUE J. PARIS

تأريخ | Historiografar