Sixty-nine
Solo exhibition held at Verge Gallery from 26 June - 15 August 2025.
Sixty-nine is an immersive sculptural exploration of the symbolic and emotional terrain of the number 69 as a cycle of life, death, queerness, and intimacy. Anchored in the architecture of the home, the work navigates domestic spaces as sites of eroticism, grief, and repetition.
Through video work and layered sculptural forms, the exhibition evokes the five stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - as nonlinear, looping states.
Tender, raw, and unsettling, it considers how care and rupture coexist, how desire and mourning blur, and how queer intimacy reclaims space within familiar cycles of loss, pleasure, and transformation.
Sound Design and Electronics: Annie McKinnon
Exhibition text: Sarah Rodigari
You can download the exhibition text here.
Sidney McMahon, 69, 2025. Photo: Jessica Maurer.
Sidney McMahon, 69, 2025. Photo: Jessica Maurer.
Sidney McMahon, 69, 2025. Photo: Jessica Maurer.
Sidney McMahon, 69, 2025. Photo: Jessica Maurer.
Sidney McMahon, 69, 2025. Photo: Jessica Maurer.
Sidney McMahon, 69, 2025. Photo: Jessica Maurer.
Sidney McMahon, 69, 2025. Photo: Jessica Maurer.