Painted in 2016, "The Body Is Not Essential" presents a languidly reclining female figure rendered in contour and color rather than naturalistic flesh, her form settled into an abstract, undefined space whose flatness Hahn reinforces through a dotted pattern distributed across the entire canvas. The figure appears absorbed in private contemplation, her interior state withheld from the viewer rather than offered up for inspection. That deliberate withholding is central to Hahn's project: where the reclining female body has historically been posed for accessibility and consumption, here it is granted opacity, existing on its own terms within a pictorial space that refuses easy entry. The title itself, shared with a talk Hahn delivered in conjunction with Half Straddle's presentation at The Kitchen, carries a philosophical provocation. To declare the body non-essential is not to dismiss it but to question the primacy so often assigned to the physical, particularly the female physical, as spectacle or subject. The dotted patterning that flattens the ground also subtly unifies figure and field, suggesting a dissolution of the conventional hierarchy between a legible body and its background. The result is a painting that is psychologically charged without being prescriptive, inviting sustained looking without rewarding the kind of gaze it quietly refuses. New York-based and exhibited internationally, Hahn has developed a distinctive figurative language across solo and group presentations at notable venues in New York, Paris, and beyond. At 71.1 by 81.3 centimeters, this oil on canvas is an intimate yet self-possessed work, signed by the artist and a strong representation of a practice that continues to attract serious critical and collector attention.