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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 stigmatised contemporary built environments and social experiences. It attends to immersive 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?