{"id":98124,"date":"2026-11-07T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98124"},"modified":"2026-11-07T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T10:01:00","slug":"artist-oscar-chan-examines-religion-myth-and-trauma-in-haunting-hong-kong-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=98124","title":{"rendered":"Artist Oscar Chan examines religion, myth and trauma in haunting Hong Kong exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/05\/44cbd77f-5071-47f6-801f-805bb67554a7_8376ec90.jpg?itok=fNnPrzgm&amp;v=1793853559\" \/><\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">After artist Oscar Chan Yik-long left Hong Kong for Europe \u2013 first to Paris, then Helsinki \u2013 in 2019, he did not return to the city for many years.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Widely considered one of Hong Kong\u2019s most promising young talents, Chan even missed his <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">2021 solo exhibition<\/span> \u2013 a display of the gothic, monochrome works he is best known for \u2013 at Gallery Exit in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, because he could not bring himself to board a long-haul flight.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">What kept him away was fear.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3373342\/artist-oscar-chan-examines-religion-myth-and-trauma-haunting-hong-kong-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After artist Oscar Chan Yik-long left Hong Kong for Europe \u2013 first to Paris, then Helsinki \u2013 in 2019, he did not return to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1785,7860,16322,5730,7001,3569,5231,17122,18505,4174,5294],"class_list":["post-98124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-artist","tag-chan","tag-examines","tag-exhibition","tag-haunting","tag-hong","tag-kong","tag-myth","tag-oscar","tag-religion","tag-trauma","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}