08/26/2026
The Deering Estate Presents High Tide Low Tide, an exhibition featuring Mette Tommerup.
Rooted in both Miami’s tidal geography and Mette Tommerup’s Scandinavian heritage, Tommerup’s practice draws from a Nordic tradition of reduction - an elemental paring down that foregrounds atmosphere, light, and spatial perception over representation. Ocean, earth, dusk, and the auroral phenomena of the northern lights operate not as imagery but as structural conditions: forces that dissolve boundaries, destabilize orientation, and expand the field of painting beyond the wall. Through these immersive spatial propositions, she positions painting as a phenomenological encounter-an embodied threshold where architecture, landscape, and viewer converge.
High Tide Low Tide unfolds as a cycle of five public interventions inspired by the rhythms of the sea. Rather than representing the ocean, the project follows the movement of the tide itself its continual revealing and concealing of landscapes, memories, and emotional worlds. Across all five interventions, High Tide Low Tide proposes that creativity moves like the sea itself. It arrives in cycles. It uncovers hidden landscapes within us before gently covering them again, reminding us that what disappears is never truly lost. Beneath every shoreline and within every person another world waits for the tide to return.
Written by Mette Tommerup.
Exhibition Schedule:
Wave 1: Sphere
Sculpture and Performance
Saturday, September 12, 2026: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Wave 2: Shelter & Between Tides
Installation and Performance
Saturday, October 10, 2026: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Wave 3: High Tide Low Tide
Original Concept Play
Saturday, October 24, 2026: 6:00 PM
Wave 4: King Tide
Open Mic
Sunday, November 8, 2026: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Tickets are free and available on the Deering Estate Website through Eventbrite.
Tickets can be acquired ONLINE. Not redeemable in person.
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