«If 6 Was 9» refers to the title of the song by Jimi Hendrix in the famous cult film Easy Rider, from 1969. As the lyrics indicate, JH opens with a cry to the liberation from the cliché of every age – even when this paradigm is already that of the very idea of liberation, openness and transformation – using here a logic of inversion, overcoming and acceptance beyond change!
The following exercise of captured images goes in exactly the same direction, going beyond the exploration of the 69 as a reference cliché of various contextual universes, starting from the formal abstraction of symmetries to the social summons of identity, politics, madness, trance, sexuality…
