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HENRIQUE J. PARIS 

Artistic and Research
Projects


Still and Moving
Image Productions

Curatorial and Social
Practices 
Recent and
Upcoming 
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 moves between material forms and socially engaged practice, using art installations, placemaking  and dramaturgy as sites of discourse and cultural production.

Supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, J. Paris’s doctoral research traces the entanglements between built environments and stigmatised social experiences, attending to immersive modes of historicising that exceed nationalist borders and orientations.

Selected Press
HJP is an artist-researcher dissecting philosophical, scenographic and architectonic frameworks in relation to [enacted] modes of power, moral codes and Christian discipleship. My practice seeks to push boundaries between visual media and social architectures by means of image-making, installations, performance, archiving and sound composition as sites of contestation, re-memory and testimony. 

While my ongoing Investigation looks closely at the intricacies [tied] in-between stigmatised Black experiences and modernity — I am interested in framing imperial technologies of violence and censorship in order to situate immersing modes of historiography, performativity and reinstitution: Coding & decoding semantics of intimacy bypassing public consciousness as well as authorship surpassing state authority.