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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, scenographic and architectonic frameworks in relation to enacted modes of power, moral codes and Christian discipleship. 
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.

Selected Press

Tactility Ethics

Archive Storage System | Multimedia Installation, 180 x 53 x 36.5cm
2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan
2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan
2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan

2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan
2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan

Installation initially displayed at Victoria & Albert Museum as part of their Field Notes exhibition at the Dr Susan Weber’s Furniture Gallery in 2022. The framework poses concerns centred on Afro Diasporic memory and imagination; englobing psychosocial experiences, modes of critical spectatorship and stasis when confronted in sites conserving colonial discourse.

Tactility Ethics situates possibilities toward cultivating gazes, authorships and values juxtaposing extractivist colonial practices in design and architecture.


V&A Museum
RCA Reseach Biennale 2025