12 Years of Turf: In-conversation with Henrique J. Paris

What support do artists need to develop a creative career? As part of our 2025/26 LEGACY programme year, we’re inviting Turf alumni artists back to reflect on and discuss their careers since their involvement with Turf. Our first alumni artist will be Henrique J. Paris, our 2019 Croydon School of Art Resident Artist, who is currently showing at Turf again as part of WETPAIN.

Join Henrique and some of the Turf team for an informal discussion about his initial involvement with Turf, how it’s impacted his career and working processes, and what he’s been up to since.

ABOUT HENRIQUE J. PARIS

Henrique J. Paris is an Angolan artist-researcher, graduated in Philosophy and currently completing a postgraduate degree in Architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. His artistic practice dissects philosophical, scenographic, and architectural frameworks. He examines enacted modes of power, moral codes, anticolonial praxis and Christian discipleship. J. Paris has explored these themes through image-making, multimedia installations, sound-oriented performance and cultural production. These formats serve as tools of contestation, re-memory, and testimony. His previous projects include the 2019 solo exhibition ‘Home Is Where The Body Isn’t’, Proyecto de Movilidad Panamá-Angola-Portugal with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) Panama, Álbuns de Família at the Padrão dos Descobrimentos in Lisbon, Body as Testimony with Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), Field Notes with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and Family Lines with the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin.