“Kink Delist” (2023) pushes Hahn’s abstraction further. Here, the body is almost dissolved into a constellation of warm and cool chromatic planes and structural brushstrokes. The figure’s bowed, inward posture refuses to function as a passive object for the gaze. Compared to 2016, works from this period intensify the internal tension of the picture—foregrounding the friction between form, structure, and color.
Yet Hahn does not abandon narrative. Instead, narrative and form grind against each other inside the painting. The figure’s contour wavers inside bands of color and compositional scaffolding—at once constrained by an enclosing framework and straining toward rupture. This tension indexes the complex position of the female subject today: both a site of suppression and a field of potential reconfiguration.
This line of inquiry culminates in her 2025 series “End. Résumé,” in which the figure becomes even more ambiguous. As the exhibition text states, the work no longer insists on a fixed body but reveals the body as a state of becoming, a continuously reconfiguring presence. Figures are enfolded—sometimes swallowed—by layered color fields, where boundaries destabilize and gendered identity is released into indeterminacy.