(b. 2000) Angolan artist-researcher, graduated in Philosophy with Film and currently completing a MPhil in Architecture at RCA in london, supported by Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship.
J. Paris’ practice questions notions of public consciousness in the context of authority versus authorship. He is primarily concerned with canons of nation states violence & coercion — while using visual media communication as an apparatus for pedagogy,
re-memory and testimony. Some of his previous works have been shown in formats of Moving Image, Multimeadia Installation, Performance, Cultural Programming and Text.
His ongoing research bridges critical epistemologies to investigate choreographies of knowledge (re)production and historiographing. Since his first solo exhibition in Croydon England Home Is Where The Body Isn’t. has sustained an ongoing interest in contemplating forms of spatial recasting through evolving semantics of belonging and reinstitution.
Previous projects include Proyecto de Movilidad Panamá-Angola-Portugal with [MAC] Museum of Contemporary Art Panama, Álbuns de Família with Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Lisbon, Body as Testemony with [Iniva] Institute of International Visual Arts, Field Notes with Victoria & Alber Museum in London and Family Lines with Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin.
J. Paris’ practice questions notions of public consciousness in the context of authority versus authorship. He is primarily concerned with canons of nation states violence & coercion — while using visual media communication as an apparatus for pedagogy,
re-memory and testimony. Some of his previous works have been shown in formats of Moving Image, Multimeadia Installation, Performance, Cultural Programming and Text.
His ongoing research bridges critical epistemologies to investigate choreographies of knowledge (re)production and historiographing. Since his first solo exhibition in Croydon England Home Is Where The Body Isn’t. has sustained an ongoing interest in contemplating forms of spatial recasting through evolving semantics of belonging and reinstitution.
Previous projects include Proyecto de Movilidad Panamá-Angola-Portugal with [MAC] Museum of Contemporary Art Panama, Álbuns de Família with Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Lisbon, Body as Testemony with [Iniva] Institute of International Visual Arts, Field Notes with Victoria & Alber Museum in London and Family Lines with Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin.