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HENRIQUE J. PARIS 

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HJP is a Lisbon-born architecture, art and research practitioner of Angolan heritage, dissecting philosophical 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 through mixed media installations, placemaking  and dramaturgy as sites of discourse production.

Supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, Paris’s ongoing doctoral investigation traces the entanglements between built environments and stigmatised social experiences, attending to immersive modes of historicising.

Selected Press

Curtain Call

 Installation, 170 x 250 x 130cm

2025, documentation by Mitsi Moulson Studio
2025, documentation by Mitsi Moulson Studio
2025, documentation by Mitsi Moulson Studio
2025, documentation by Mitsi Moulson Studio


A site-specific installation contemplating legacy, personhood, Christian faith, and mortality. The installation engages with the layered historicity of Black lives in the late 19th century, using Croydon as a starting point. Through timber structures, cotton canvases and fragments of paper to cross-examine interwoven narratives of liberation and labour.

Inspired by the life and work of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912) a composer and conductor from Croydon, this installation reflects on his labour, transnational advocacy and social networks; figures such as Paul Laurence Dunbar and W.E.B. Du Bois intersected with his world, their collective efforts shaping anti-colonial thought and contributing to pivotal moments such as the 1900 Pan-African Conference in Westminster.

The title, Curtain Call, signals both an ending and an invitation to renewed engagement with these histories. It reflects on how we memorialise forgotten movements, weaving textures, notes, and embedded characters into an ongoing process of remembrance. The installation enacts the tension between presence and absence, historical erasure, and reclamation.

Henrique J. Paris’ personal connection to Croydon informs the work, bridging spatial knowledge with lived experience. Visitors are invited to immerse themselves in a space where memory, imagination and critical spectatorship converge — activating histories that persist beyond the archive.