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.
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.