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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

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