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.
Mem|ora|bilia
Multimedia Installation
2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation By Raphael Fonta Castillo
2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation By Nina Manandhar
2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation by Mamady Diana
2022, Brixton Theatre
2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation By Raphael Fonta Castillo
2022, Brixton Theatre, documentation By Raphael Fonta Castillo
Resting on and laying around the furniture are a series of prints and objects of ephemera sourced from Henrique’s family archives, mapping critical experiences of space, time and shared exchanges. Furthermore accompanying the installation are audio works, collected by the artist himself, of multiple voices that correspond directly to the Portuguese colonial war (1961-74) in Angola. As these testimonies are broadcasted across the room at different decibels, their temporality arouses questions of ‘How one dances, blushes, screws, and feels’ as being regenerative mechanisms in mapping heritage
Text & Co-curation by Daré Dada