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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 an Angolan art and research practitioner dissecting philosophical, architectonic and scenographic frameworks in relation to enacted modes of power, moral codes and Christian discipleship. His work seeks to push boundaries between visual media and socially engaged practices, using mixed media installations, placemaking, dramaturgy and still-moving-images as sites of contestation.

Supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, Paris’s ongoing doctoral investigation traces the entanglements between contemporary built environments and stigmatised social experiences. It attends to immersive modes of historiography, archiving through regenerative and hospitable notes.

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.