{"id":497,"date":"2025-05-22T07:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:37:41","slug":"preview-the-thick-hazy-cinema-of-alvin-ongs-sayang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/preview-the-thick-hazy-cinema-of-alvin-ongs-sayang\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: The Thick, Hazy Cinema of Alvin Ong&#039;s &#8220;Sayang&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/f35ad2ffa1da8848a4c417dd0e0de61f_L.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">Alvin Ong paints the human experience with a winter soup like thickness. It&#8217;s like all the things you want to see and the surprises of emotional release all in one place. It&#8217;s life, it&#8217;s the queer experience, and it&#8217;s cinema. What I have loved about Alvin Ong&#8217;s paintings over the years and&nbsp;Sayang at Anat Ebgi captures the same feeling is that a scene extends into the metaphysical. The perspectives bend but don&#8217;t break, the rooms fill and yet you aren&#8217;t sure if anyone is quite there together or in their own realm. Evasive is a word that comes to mind, but perhaps not to the viewer but to the other characters themselves. It makes you ponder your own behavior in&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvin Ong paints the human experience with a winter soup like thickness. It&#8217;s like all the things you want to see and the surprises of emotional release all in one place. It&#8217;s life, it&#8217;s the queer experience, and it&#8217;s cinema. What I have loved about Alvin Ong&#8217;s paintings over the years and&nbsp;Sayang at Anat Ebgi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revolutionstrings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}