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.

Victoria & Albert Museum
Contemporary And
Rimas e Batidas
Ableton

Padrões da Polifonia

Multimedia Installation, 190 x 150 x 90cm

2024, Padrão dos descobrimentos, documentation by Rafael de Oliveira

On display at the museum | monument of the discoveries in Lisbon as part of their ‘Álbuns de Família’ (Family Albums)exhibition. The installation explores the historicity of African social movements in Portugal and collective diasporic oral and sonic tendencies. Containing self-portraits of local contemporary sound producers XEXA, Dadifox, Narciso, ADAMM, Nuno Beats e Danifox whose practices are entangled with cultural legacies such as Batida | Kuduro. They’recontributing to an archive that incorporates tactics of resistance, representation, permanence and polyphony in African socio-cultural authorship and authority in the city.

J. Paris approaches socio-spatial tensions in public settings; the display of faces, handwritings and frequencies of those who are (or may often not be) represented in the site [monument] — the sound producers pushing and continuously redefining African sonorities. This work reflects the urgency of sound production for the diasporas residing in Portugal and the role it plays in their processes of humanisation and cultural-identity affirmation.

The Guardian
Ableton

Extending from the Padrões da Polifonia, J. Paris collaborated with music collective RS Produções to build an Extended Play tittled Ressurgência now available on all music streaming platforms.

Rimas e Batidas

HENRIQUE J. PARIS

Padrões da Polifonia