“Lost and Found” brings together British painter Thomas Cameron and London-based Korean artist Momin Choi in a thoughtful exploration of the emotional and psychological tensions embedded in urban life. 

The exhibition will open on 17 January 2026, and run through 28 February 2026 in Hong Kong.

Through distinct yet complementary visual languages, the two artists reflect on what it means to exist in the modern city—where people are constantly surrounded by others, yet often feel profoundly alone.

Cameron’s contemplative oil paintings focus on the poetry of the everyday. 

His works depict ordinary moments—people passing by, shop windows, familiar street corners—quietly charged with untold stories. By elevating the overlooked and the fleeting, he transforms the mundane into something tender and evocative. 

Drawing on the tactile richness of oil paint and the unintentional beauty of vernacular photography, Cameron creates compositions filled with ambiguity and open-ended narrative. 

Subtle motifs such as modern architecture, storefronts, and passers-by serve as gentle markers of contemporary city life, revealing the delicate balance between connection and isolation. 

For this exhibition, Cameron has produced three works especially for Hong Kong, deliberately avoiding iconic landmarks in favor of roadside scenes and market stalls—those easily ignored yet deeply revealing fragments of the city’s daily rhythm.

Momin Choi approaches urban existence from a more inward perspective.

 Born in Seoul and now based in London, he explores psychological and emotional landscapes shaped by memory, displacement, and perception. 

His figures, often infused with humor and a quiet sense of loss, appear both familiar and strangely detached.

 Through a blend of realism and symbolic imagery, Choi weaves together personal recollections with cultural references, creating scenes that resonate with shared human experience.

 Drawing inspiration from philosophy, anthropology, the humanities, and psychology, as well as from classical painting and everyday life, he has developed a distinctive visual language rooted in introspection. 

His works invite viewers to reflect on identity and the subtle fragments of the self that may be eroded by the relentless pace of urban living.

Momin Choi

Grey Swan, 2025

Oil on linen

110 x 120 cm

(MC 25.04)

 $ 5,000

Together, Cameron and Choi offer two interconnected ways of seeing the city: one outward, attentive to the fragile beauty of ordinary life, and the other inward, attuned to the shifting terrain of memory and emotion. “Lost and Found” becomes not only a meditation on urban existence, but also a quiet call to rediscover what may have been misplaced within ourselves amid the noise of the world around us.