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

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multimedia installation

2024, Library at Museo de Arte Contemporâneo de Panamá | Pronto de Movilidad

Who’s defining the terms and conditions of our transit(s) & How are new commodities freeing us? Are questions underscored on Paris’ work produced between Colon, Portobelo and Panama province. Drawing haptic tensions around civil construction, military action and transatlantic emotional geographies in homage to Angolan folkloric and electronic hymns.
J Paris prolonged historical characters and televised performance footage into containers some rendered in red wax, others marked by tactile movements and decay.

His investigation attends processes that mark impulses, opacities and corporealities; thinking different contact points between human touch and media technology, bodies and their voices as vessels for civil rights enactment. Anti-colonial propagandas seen in dance choreographies and sound tracks emerging between late 1970s and 2005 (before and after independence) during colonial tensions — interrogating both, the formation of national identity and Black aesthetics across the Atlantic Ocean, prompting reflections around culture production during moments of war from relational views.

HENRIQUE J. PARIS

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