Jimmi Wing Ka Ho

Noiascape is pleased to present A Tiny Room of Hong Kong, an ongoing project by Hong Kong–born, London-based artist Jimmi Wing Ka Ho. The exhibition explores archival materials from Hong Kong’s so-called “Golden Age” under British colonial rule, examining how images and narratives from this period continue to shape cultural memory, while also challenging how it is perceived and understood. Jimmi Wing Ka Ho is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across photography, found materials, and installation. His practice investigates themes of migration, colonial history, and visual memory. His recent exhibition Invisible City, presented in collaboration with the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne, traced the visible and invisible remnants of German colonial rule within the Chinese metropolis of Qingdao. In A Tiny Room of Hong Kong, Jimmi extracts, distorts, and recomposes historical brochures and media, questioning how archival materials construct both personal and collective memories of the city. The exhibition invites audiences to reconsider their perceptions of urban history: what is remembered or forgotten, what remains unseen, and what continues to persist. Exhibition: 14th – 18th May, 12:00 - 18:00 Opening: Thursday 14th May 2026, 18:00 - late 📍 Noiascape, 83 Askew Road, London W12 9AH No booking required — everyone is welcome. @groundhooo @rjmkoeln . . . . #Noiascape #modernliving #photographyexhibition #ArtistMeetsArchive #creativecommunity

Notes from London – August (2025) Grateful to @darkroomlondon for holding space for my residency in Camden, where I explore the experimental possibilities of darkroom materials. Think, read, create slowly. From one estate to the scale of the city, what remains when surfaces are peeled back, memories, futures, forms of life? Do they still breathe in the thickness of the fold? A few 12×16 inch @ilfordphoto prints from a work-in-progress. #darkroomphotography #london #analog #blackandwhite #darkroomlondon

What remains of a colonial past when it disappears from the cityscape, is distorted in the archive – or reappears as backdrop? »Invisible City« is a visual exploration through the Chinese metropolis of Qingdao. Starting from a colonial photo archive, Jimmi Wing Ka Ho traces the visible and invisible remnants of German colonial rule – from restored fin-de-siècle villas to myth-laden sewage systems beneath the city. The city itself becomes an archive: a place where history fades, is rewritten – and quietly endures. With texts by Jimmi Wing Ka Ho @groundhooo & Wang Shuai, and Ye Charlotte Ming @blackeyeyese This book was created as part of the »Artist Meets Archive« residency by Internationale Photoszene Köln @photoszene at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum @rjmkoeln Cologne. 📘 get the book at @shift.books online shop #papersarchive

A Tiny Room of Hong Kong 做當日的第一位訪客，隔著一條馬路見到Jimmi將展品整理好，對著街道的螢幕還未開始播放畫面，寧靜的街區，正午陽光反射著展覽空間外面的一條條紅色。 「紅」，權力的象徵符號、怵目驚心的、入侵性的、充滿妥協與規範的。展品同樣捉住這一顏色的多種層次，圍繞「香港」，以不同視角的對立呈現它的多面。被殖民的、被取替或剝奪的。始終都是被凝視的狀態。 三張「躺平」的豬與made in hongkong的士兵並排，不成比例的大小模糊了權力關係與歷史敘事的比重。一位老人家的手，濃縮了日治時期、英殖背景，兩文三語同時介紹香港風景，壓縮在由於打光而變成漆黑的薄薄菲林，它承受了太多。 之前在<Somewhere, someday>以及<Sonder>兩個展覽中均有看過Jimmi的作品，很鍾意他每次在不同空間內將不同物件重新排列組合的神奇效果。上次的textile print與女童軍校服、遙寄雙城的明信片一齊拼湊成年輕女仔離家的親密敘事，Riverhouse的的軒尼詩道高跟鞋同駐港部隊的即影即有拼起時代的斷裂。而這次有種「櫥窗」的設計感，邀請路過的人向裡面張望，似是燈紅酒綠的灣仔燦爛的櫥窗與尖東夜場，卻在進入後發現那變了形走了樣、像收不到訊號的電視機一樣，充滿雪花與卡頓的城市面貌。 被也斯的詩深深打動。坐在展廳一角、通過可控制的按鈕一張張幻燈片走過，仿似悠閒做遊客一日的事不再奢侈，也不再可能。「不可能」是因為總有熟悉的生活痕跡與影子；「不再奢侈」則是因為之後的每一次返去，似是都是被飛機起降定義了的長度。 在幻燈片走過啟德、海洋公園，慢慢來到石板街時，想起自己住在上環的兩年歲月，那種濕熱間不想走上斜的無奈瞬間在幻燈片中筆直投射向我。林東鵬的北角旅館也有一樣的故事，展覽也很好地詮釋了「此地彼方」的陌生與nostalgia，帶有一絲幽默，卻也填滿落寞。 也斯的落寞和我們的落寞有哪些相同與不同之處呢？同樣是遷移，似乎我們的掛念要隔著多幾層、多幾種失去？在憶起「屋企」時，不只是要記得斜路的長度與密集公屋的磚瓦，還要拼起無數新聞剪報、茶餐廳紀錄圖像，才回到也斯的歲月。這追溯回憶的過程蘊含了太多次的遷拆與失去，國籍仍然曖昧的護照，用照片虛構一個個回憶、一個個失去了很多次的「家」。 一句「我們帶著種種奇怪的東西前行」，變形至富德樓書店出過的post、西倫敦的舊式投影機、尋找姓氏複雜遷移歷史的《隱蹟之書：重寫自我》也將它放在開頭。我們隔著不同的年代與空間，同樣感到「所居住的城市的涼薄」。 2015年Jimmi的攝影系列是對各種公屋晾曬棉被的觀察，過了十幾年，出版物已略為褪色、貼合的膠逐漸風乾，被褥的千百萬個曬太陽的方式成了清晨deptford english breakfast早餐陽光下的景觀。每個城市都有代表性重複出現的事物，但總懷念香港，那故事密度異常豐富。在角落中放置的關於香港的出版物，小巧卻沉甸甸的檔案紀錄，是一班人堅持留下的香港，充滿無法被定義、無法被凝視的倔強。 A tiny room of Hong Kong. 壓縮了時空維度，提煉成貯存回憶的雪櫃冰格。從屋企出發走向維多利亞港，城市在陽光下慢慢解凍、逐漸融化。 @groundhooo

𝓤𝓷𝓹𝓪𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓼 38x37cm, Mixed media, 2026 @groundhooo This drawer-based installation brings together an old carpet, a Girl Scout uniform, and a postcard sent from London to Hong Kong. Though these objects are unrelated, together they form a personal archive of nostalgia, distance, and longing. The work reflects on how memories of Hong Kong are held through fragments that are incomplete, displaced, and intimate. 𝒮𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇 6–9 May | 11am–5pm | by RSVP Drawing Room, Queen Alexandra’s House, Bremner Road, South Kensington, London

NOIA TALK — Conversations on creativity and London. What makes a photographer when everyone is taking photos? Through five distinct lenses — historical archives, contemporary urban identity, human connection, the complexities of contemporary society, and cultural production, Noiascape invites 4 photographers to discuss how they depict and experience the city. The evening is chaired by the cultural strategist Zac Procter. Join us on 15 May to hear different ways of seeing a city. Registration required via Eventbrite (link in bio). 🗓 19:00, 15 May 2026
📍 Noiascape, 83 Askew Road, London W12 9AH @brynley.odu.davies @cecedipaolo @groundhooo @renelazovy @zacprocter . . . . #colivingcommunity #noiascape #globalcreatives #londonartist #londoncity

𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝓉 ℐ𝓃𝓉𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 - 𝓙𝓲𝓶𝓶𝓲 𝓦𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓚𝓪 𝓗𝓸 Jimmi Wing Ka Ho @groundhooo is a visual artist from Hong Kong whose work explores themes of migration, colonial history, and visual memory. Working with photography, found materials, and installation, he engages with fragmented archives to question how identity and belonging are constructed. His recent projects disrupt colonial image regimes by reworking archival slides, reframing the past through visual dislocation, repetition, and abstraction. He draws inspiration from personal and collective memories, creating poetic and critical spaces for alternative narratives. 𝒮𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇 6-9 May 11am-5pm by RSVP Drawing Room, Queen Alexandra’s House, Bremner Road, South Kensington, London #exhibition #photographer #heritage #queenalexandrashouse

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Thinking of applying for 2026 Darkroom London Residency? 📣 Have a look at our last residency exhibition, featuring work by Jimmi Wing Ka Ho @groundhooo , a glimpse into the darkroom as a space for experimentation, reflection and process. Beginning at the Aylesbury Estate in late 2024,Jimmi’s project photographs what redevelopment tries to swallow: marks and drawings on glass, rusted iron doors with flat numbers, and footprints held in dust. The camera does not preserve a complete story. It notices remnants that refuse to be absorbed into the language of renewal and progress. Following Hal Foster, the real returns as a symptom, a small puncture in a polished surface. Memory is not repair or restoration. It is what persists quietly, returning through folds and thresholds, asking what remains when a place is stripped away. Our 2026 residency open call closes on April 26 🔔 we would love to hear from you. #darkroomlondon #artistresidency #photographyresidency #analoguephotography #darkroom

The plants from far away #ilfordhp5plus #ilfordphoto @ilfordphoto

From the latest series, ‘A Study of the Aylesbury Estate’ Developed during the residency at @darkroomlondon #pentax17 #ilfordphoto #kentmerepan200

River walk with my #mamiya7 #ilfordfp4 #ilfordphoto @ilfordphoto