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Curated by the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA), Fermata: Hong Kong in Venice explores the poetry of everyday life through the work of Hong Kong-born artists Kingsley Ng and Angel Hui.  Inspired by their native city’s cultural heritage and urban landscape, the artists use a range of media to reimagine ordinary experiences, creating a series of site-specific installations for Biennale Arte 2026. Together, the works offer a portrait of a city in constant change. Like a fermata—a musical pause extended at the performer’s discretion—the exhibition invites visitors to linger a little longer with the everyday. It encourages a heightened awareness of the small moments, gestures and details that often go unnoticed, revealing how they shape our sense of attention, care and wonder within the city. "The exhibition is a tribute to the serendipitous encounters within the surroundings we inhabit. My site-specific practice has always sought to illuminate the overlooked, often reconfiguring the f...