# @21chotels on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CYt295QtPSR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/17440086-21chotels-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/82082ca06f.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-01-14T16:05:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** 21c Museum Hotels (@21cHotels) — https://gondola.cc/21cHotels

## Caption

Using his friends as models, Ren Hang's photographs are erotic snapshots of human desire. During his short life (1987-2017), the artist experienced international fame but controversy at home in China where he was arrested several times and his works confiscated and defaced. His images of naked bodies were considered bold stances against censorship and Chinese conservatism, although the artist refuted the idea that his photographs were political. "I'm doing this because I still get a feeling of novelty from it," the artist notes "and it fills the emptiness of my heart."⁠
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Pictured: Ren Hang, Untitled, 2012, Chromogenic print⁠
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#21cOffSpring #21cmuseum #photography #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist

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21cmuseum, contemporaryartist, photography, contemporaryart, 21coffspring

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