Claudia Chanhoi is an artist whose work focuses on female sexuality. She speaks to Kate Whitehead.  Photo: K. Y. Cheng
Claudia Chanhoi is an artist whose work focuses on female sexuality. She speaks to Kate Whitehead. Photo: K. Y. Cheng
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‘Women are used as sex objects’: an artist on losing her virginity, beating Instagram’s censors and growing up ‘super Catholic’

  • Hong Kong artist Claudia Chanhoi’s strict Catholic upbringing caused her to feel guilty about losing her virginity while still unmarried, at 22 years of age
  • She tells Kate Whitehead about how that inspired her artwork, how she manoeuvres around Instagram’s censorship and the sexual harassment she has faced