{"id":2615,"date":"2019-04-15T19:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2019-07-28T01:46:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T18:46:28","slug":"returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/gallery\/returning\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 : Returning, Revisiting &#038; Reconstructing &#8211; Green Zeng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2762 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Green-Zeng_Exhibition-Web-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"1130\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Green-Zeng_Exhibition-Web-Banner.jpg 1130w, https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Green-Zeng_Exhibition-Web-Banner-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Green-Zeng_Exhibition-Web-Banner-768x257.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Green-Zeng_Exhibition-Web-Banner-1024x343.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1130px) 100vw, 1130px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Galerie &amp; Cinema Oasis presents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Returning, Revisiting &amp; Reconstructing<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The works of filmmaker &amp; photo-artist <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Green Zeng<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">4 May &#8211; 2 June 2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>(Opening event Saturday 4 May 2019 from 3.00 \u2013 9.00 pm)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>C<\/strong>ompared to the epic high melodrama of Thai politics, Singapore seems tame. But you\u2019d be surprised. There may be less scope for emoting but the tectonic shifts over there are just as threateningly grand.<\/p>\n<p>Green Zeng\u2019s images of internal exile burst at the seams with longing\u2014a terrible wasting disease of homesickness for a home you can\u2019t return to; it seems to be right there in front of you but it no longer exists.<\/p>\n<p>Foundation Cinema Oasis is thrilled to celebrate the work of this devastating multi-disciplinary artist from Singapore, with the Thai Premiere of his searing feature film \u2018<em>The Return<\/em>\u2019 at Cinema Oasis and the photographic exhibition \u2018<em>An Exile Revisits the City<\/em>\u2019 and video installation \u2018<em>Student Reconstruction<\/em>\u2019 of forced TV confessions of political detainees, at Galerie Oasis from 4 May to 2 June 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>G<\/strong>reen Zeng will be here in person to give a MovieTalk \/ ArtTalk, in English with Thai translation, with Q &amp; A, on 4 May at Cinema Oasis. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear from the soulful and unfettered voices of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-slideshow\"\n\t id=\"ngg-slideshow-2757-10442018810\"\n     data-gallery-id=\"2757\"\n     style=\"max-width: 600px; max-height: 400px;\">\n\n \t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-slideshow-image\" style=\"height:400px\">\n\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2019-GreenZ\/2Supreme-Court.jpg\"\n           title=\"\"\n           data-src=\"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2019-GreenZ\/2Supreme-Court.jpg\"\n           data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/2019-GreenZ\/thumbs\/thumbs_2Supreme-Court.jpg\"\n           data-image-id=\"134\"\n           data-title=\"2Supreme Court\"\n           data-description=\"\"\n           class=\"ngg-fancybox\" rel=\"2757\">\n\n            <img data-image-id='134'\n                 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To a casual observer, the old man is almost invisible, lost along with the history of the place that has been turned into a tourist site. With these 2 levels of meaning and significance, the artist is saying that Singapore edits its story by choosing to present only aspects of its history that portray an orderly and peaceful society, stranger to the chaos of other nations<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>About Artist :\u00a0\u00a0Green Zeng\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greenzeng.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/greenzeng.wordpress.com\/about\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1555417635844000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHJ2kmEjf4U_irrUAXPATHT80nPfQ\">https:\/\/greenzeng.wordpress.<wbr \/>com\/about\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Schedule for 4 May 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3 pm: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Premiere of the movie \u2018<strong>The Return<\/strong>\u2019 at Cinema Oasis (director in attendance)<\/p>\n<p>4.30 \u2013 5.30 pm: <strong>MovieTalk \/ ArtTalk + Q &amp; A<\/strong> with artist\/filmmaker Green Zeng<\/p>\n<p>6 &#8211; 9 pm:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opening Party of \u2018<strong>An Exile Revisits the City\u2019<\/strong> &amp; \u2018<strong>Student Reconstruction<\/strong>\u2019 at Galerie Oasis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Galerie &amp; Cinema Oasis presents Returning, Revisiting &amp; Reconstructing The works of filmmaker &amp; photo-artist Green Zeng &nbsp; 4 May &#8211; 2 June 2019 (Opening event Saturday 4 May 2019 from 3.00 \u2013 9.00 pm) \u00a0 \u00a0 Compared to the epic high melodrama of Thai politics, Singapore seems tame. But you\u2019d be surprised. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[33,10,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}