The Swan's Script III

DIMIN
406 Broadway, Fl. 2,
New York, NY
August 6-28, 2026

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 6th, 6-8pm

Rachel Cope
Sarah Alice Moran
Max Razdow
Dana Sherwood

The Swan’s Script III is one of three exhibitions in a series curated by The Sphinx. The Swan’s Script III draws inspiration from Hilma af Klint’s The Swan series (1914–1915), a progression of swan paintings. The exhibition imagines the swan less as an emblem than as a switching device, allowing form to pivot, digress and multiply with devotion — from figuration to abstraction — through an array of narrative and plotless utterances. The symbol of the swan disguising, doubling, and mirroring its own image may be framed as a euphemism of transformation in an otherwise continuous being, as portrayed between Acts II and III of Swan Lake, when the principal dancer changes costume to transfigure from Odette to Odile.

The swans in af Klint’s paintings present a play of opposites, quadrants, and alchemical forms; similarly, M.C. Escher’s Swan (1956) wood engravings evoke computational formats and patterning through swan shadows, jagged plumage, and infinity loops. In The Swan’s Script III, we aim to capture a language that opens itself to phenomenological potentials, interweaving birds and abstraction, creating persuasions that curve and fold as poetics.

The Swan's Script III will take place in DIMIN's Living Room concurrently with Blizzard in the main gallery from August 6th to 28th, 2026

The Swan's Script II, Geary Contemporary, Salisbury, CT, July 15 - 18, 2026

The Swan's Script I, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY, Upstate Art Weekend, June 26 - 28, 2026

DIMIN is located in Tribeca at 406 Broadway, Fl. 2, New York, NY. For all inquiries, please contact gallery@dimin.nyc.