While classification freed directors to use
explicit language in marvelous films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed films like Out
of Africa and Children
of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature
of human sexuality, it has also given us a series
of slasher films — Friday the 13th, with its many
parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
parts one and two — and films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably
explicit Body Double.
Hang's seemingly sexually
explicit works, full
of naked
bodies and private
body parts, reveal the artist's extraordinary skill in managing desexualized nudity and turning
human bodies into mesmerizing living sculptures and paintings, captured with his camera.