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.
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
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.