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.
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 practice seeks to push boundaries between visual media and social architectures, using still and moving image, art installations, sound-driven performances and archiving as sites of contestation, re-memory and testimony.
While J. Paris’s ongoing Investigation looks closely at the intricacies tied in-between stigmatised social experiences and modernity. Interested in immersing modes of historiography, resounding regenerative notes.