His work seeks to push boundaries between visual media and socially-engaged practices, 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.
2022, Brixton Theatre, documented by Mamady Diana
2025, documentation by Mitsi Moulson Studio
2025, documentation by Mitsi Moulson Studio
2024, V&A Museum, documented by Mamady Diana
2022, V&A Museum.
2024, Padrão dos Descobrimentos, documented by Rafael de Oliveira
HJP (b.2000, Lisbon) is an Angolan artist-researcher dissecting philosophical, scenographic and architectonic frameworks in relation to modes of power, moral codes and Christian discipleship.
His work seeks to push boundaries between visual media and socially-engaged practices, using still and moving image, multimedia installations, sound-based performances and placemaking 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.