Photo exhibition "Shimmer" by Ave Mets

The photo exhibition „Shimmer“ by Ave Mets opens on Friday, 4 October at 12.00 in the University of Tartu Philosophicum Hall Gallery (Jakobi 2, Tartu). The exhibition offers shimmer, impressions and plays of light from different locations in Estonia and all over the world for viewers to discover. 

„Shimmer“ exhibits „pictures of glinting, blinding, refracting, deforming light on frozen, liquid and vaporized water; water that we walk on, water we look through, water that carries“, as the author herself describes the exhibition. The author’s unique vision has captured scenes from nature, the Emajõgi, the Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean and rivers of Pullman, as well as water in its different forms in city streets, for example. 

Ave Mets is a research fellow in philosophy of science at the Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu. Ave Mets studied at the University of Tartu and RWTH Aachen University (PhD, 2013). She developed a deeper interest in photography around the time she began her university studies. Some of the works at the exhibition were photographed during the time Ave Mets spent as a Fulbright visiting scholar in the USA in 2022. Her studies at the Estonian Nautical School have also provided creative inspiration for her photography. 

„Shimmer“ remains open until 17 November 2024. Entrance to the exhibition is free of charge during the usual opening hours of Jakobi 2: Mon-Fri 8.00-19.45 and Sat-Sun 8.00-18.00 (may differ during holidays). 

„Shimmer“ is part of the thematic series „Order and Chaos“ called to life by the network of six art galleries of the University of Tartu.