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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 moves between material forms and socially engaged practice, using art installations, placemaking  and dramaturgy as sites of discourse and cultural production.

Supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, J. Paris’s doctoral research traces the entanglements between built environments and stigmatised social experiences, attending to immersive modes of historicising that exceed nationalist borders and orientations.

Selected Press

Tactility Ethics

Archive Storage System | Multimedia Installation, 180 x 53 x 36.5cm
2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan
2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan
2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan

2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan
2022, V&A Museum, documentation by Jeremy Chan

Installation initially displayed at Victoria & Albert Museum as part of their Field Notes exhibition at the Dr Susan Weber’s Furniture Gallery in 2022. The framework poses concerns centred on Afro Diasporic memory and imagination; englobing psychosocial experiences, modes of critical spectatorship and stasis when confronted in sites conserving colonial discourse.

Tactility Ethics situates possibilities toward cultivating gazes, authorships and values juxtaposing extractivist colonial practices in design and architecture.


V&A Museum
RCA Reseach Biennale 2025