{"link":"https://hornet.com/stories/ren-hang/","id":129243,"date":"2017-03-08T16:24:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:24:56","modified":"2017-03-08T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T21:24:56","slug":"ren-hang","title":"Remembering the Eerie Sexuality of Late Queer Chinese Photographer Ren Hang (Photos)","excerpt":"

Queer photographer Ren Hang, whose art shocked Chinese authorities with its frank, unsettling sexuality, committed suicide late last month

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Queer Chinese photographer Ren Hang committed suicide late last month just before he would have turned 30.

During his short life, he shocked audiences with his frank depictions of sexuality — often queer sexuality.

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Sexuality, in his work, often takes on a surreal, eerie quality.

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Pornography is illegal in China. Ren frequently ran into trouble with the police.

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Ren told Vice, “My photos, especially the ones of naked bodies, are forbidden to be shown in Chinese galleries.”

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“I don’t want others having the impression that Chinese people are robots with no cocks or pussies,” he said, quoted in NewNowNext.

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Ren made no secret of the fact that he suffered from depression.

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Ren Hang jumped out of a building on February 24.

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Remembering the Eerie Sexuality of Late Queer Chinese Photographer Ren Hang (Photos)

During his short life, he shocked audiences with his frank depictions of sexuality — often queer sexuality.

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