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.

Victoria & Albert Museum
Contempory And
Rimas e Batidas
Ableton

Ultrasound Opera

Spatial Activation

Still from ‘Ultrasound Opera’ 2025, documented by Renato Cruz Santos.

In dissemination of touch in its sensorial, operational and dimensional driving forces; drawn from structures in the Black family, institutional orchestrations and systems of labour surrounding it: interplaying possibilities for epistemic rupture. The iteration journeys through ideas beyond 'service', 'server' or ‘servitude' staged in the context of Galeria Municipal do Porto at the multifaceted site converted onto a playground and auditorium designed by Monica de Miranda.

The starting point for the performance essay is J Paris' earlier sonic lecture series titled 'Humming as a Praxis' where he attended gentle sonic gestures as tools for renouncing public corporations rooted in colonial thought [during 2024] at the V&A Museum in Kensington (London) and Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Belém (Lisbon); exploring sounding in these site's tragic economies.

HENRIQUE J. PARIS

Ultrasound Opera