Invisible City

What remains of a colonial past when it disappears from the cityscape, is distorted in the archive – or reappears as a staged backdrop?

Invisible City is a visual investigation in the Chinese metropolis of Qingdao. Starting from a colonial photographic archive, Jimmi Wing Ka Ho traces the visible and invisible legacies of German colonial rule—from restored Wilhelminian villas to the myth-laden sewage systems beneath the city. The city itself becomes an archive in which history vanishes, is rewritten – and yet continues to shape the present.