Hiding in Plain Sight: A visual essay on the cultural anatomy of Hong Kong

This series explores how the urban body dissolves into its surroundings: faces become patterns, gestures merge with architecture, and human presence hums softly within the visual noise of the metropolis. People are there, yet not there, unrecognisable, absorbed, suspended in the ceaseless choreography of the city. In the saturated rhythm of Hong Kong, colour does not merely decorate: it inhabits. It seeps into every surface, turning walls, clothes, and people into one continuous skin of the city. The traditional primary colours become a camouflage of the everyday, a visual language through which the city conceals and reveals itself.

The project captures a paradox: a place where everything is visible, yet nothing is truly seen; where individuality fades not into darkness, but into an excess of light and colour. The project analyzes visual anthropology , the work traces a fragile balance between presence and disappearance and investigates how identity performs itself through surfaces, how belonging is negotiated in movement, reflection, and repetition.

Hiding in Plain Sight becomes a meditation on perception and anonymity, an invitation to look closer at what is already before us yet remains unseen, to perceive the hidden intimacy between bodies and the city that quietly absorbs them.

This project has been co-curated with Marianna Fioretti. I am grateful for her help in selecting the photographs and copy editing of its description. 

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2016 - 2025