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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 seeks to push boundaries between visual media and socially engaged practices through mixed media installations, placemaking  and dramaturgy as sites of discourse production.

Supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, Paris’s ongoing doctoral investigation traces the entanglements between built environments and stigmatised social experiences, attending to immersive modes of historicising.

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?