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HENRIQUE J. PARIS 

Artistic and Research
Projects


Still and Moving
Image Productions

Curatorial and Social
Practices 
Recent and
Upcoming 
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.

Selected Press

Mem|ora|bilia

Multimedia Installation

2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation By Raphael Fonta Castillo
2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation By Nina Manandhar
2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation by Mamady Diana
2022, Brixton Theatre
2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation By Raphael Fonta Castillo
2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation By Raphael Fonta Castillo


‘Mem’, ‘Ora’ and ‘Bilia’ is  centred around Black diasporic memory and the modes in which we can encounter collective histories through inhabitation. Taking shape in this domain, J. Paris’ field of thought, there are 12 wooden fixtures serving as building blocks. Some standing at a maximum 7ft in height, as others may sprawl in length. The purple paint coated on the furniture activates a renewal of life whilst highlighting past histories.

Resting on and laying around the furniture are a series of prints and objects of ephemera sourced from Henrique’s family archives, mapping critical experiences of space, time and shared exchanges. Furthermore accompanying the installation are audio works, collected by the artist himself, of multiple voices that correspond directly to the Portuguese colonial war (1961-74) in Angola. As these testimonies are broadcasted across the room at different decibels, their temporality arouses questions of ‘How one dances, blushes, screws, and feels’ as being regenerative mechanisms in mapping heritage

Text & Co-curation by Daré Dada