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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, scenographic and architectonic frameworks in relation to enacted modes of power, moral codes and Christian discipleship. 
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.

Selected Press

My Ontological Corporeality

Multimedia Installation

2022, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2022, Hangar CIA, documentation by Ana Garrido
2022, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2022, Hangar CIA, documentation by Ana Garrido


Consists of a bedside table, public remains and a series of images collected from self-documented footage: depicting the body in transit, affective gestures and domesticity.
J. Paris contemplates mobility and how these manifest in everyday life through materiality and embodied knowledges; the body in movement becoming a monument. 

In the words of Greg Tate “the embodied weaponry of self-styled Black physicality”, could refer to corporeality as a starting point to question the complex relationship between a body and the architecture surrounding it — what gets to inhabit what?