ATTA x Lip Talk” Mantis Shrimp Matrix exhibition By Lip Talk (Sarah K. Pedinotti)

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“ATTA x Lip Talk”

Mantis Shrimp Matrix

By Lip Talk (Sarah K. Pedinotti)

6 February – 16 March 2025

Opening Reception on 13 February 2025; 6:00-8:00pm

ATTA Gallery is thrilled to unveil the “ATTA x” Project—an annual initiative that invites dynamic collaborations with artists and curators beyond our usual scope. This bold new venture celebrates the materiality of art and the immersive power of the five senses, pushing the boundaries and redefining how art is personally experienced and appreciated.

The “ATTA x” Project will kick off each year with a fresh and innovative exhibition, setting the tone for the months ahead. Starting in April 2025, we’ll launch a Call for Entries, inviting artists to submit proposals for this exciting opportunity. One exceptional concept will be selected and brought to life in an engaging 1–1.5-month exhibition at the start of 2026. Stay tuned for more details!

We’re excited to kick off the first-ever “ATTA x” Project in 2025 with ATTA x Lip Talk, a groundbreaking collaboration that promises to challenge perceptions and ignite the senses. This debut exhibition will set the stage for the innovative spirit and creative exploration that define the “ATTA x” initiative.

ATTA x Lip Talk will be on show from 6 February – 16 March 2025. The opening reception will be held on 13 February 2025 between 6-8pm, with the artist being present.

About the Exhibition

The Mantis Shrimp Matrix is an immersive, multi-sensory art installation that explores perception, ancestry, and the search for meaning through the lens of one of natureʼs most extraordinary creatures. With its ability to see ultraviolet, infrared, and polarized light, the mantis shrimp perceives a world far beyond human vision. This project asks: What does it mean to truly see? How do we expand our perception—not just biologically, but creatively, ancestrally, and spiritually?

Every living being experiences the world through a sensory framework shaped by biology, instincts, and environment. Scientists call this an umwelt—a unique perceptual world that defines an organismʼs reality. The mantis shrimpʼs vision, radically different from our own, challenges us to imagine a spectrum of existence beyond human perception. While we may never see as it does, the very act of trying—of translating its perception into art—is an act of love. This process of reaching beyond ourselves, of stretching the limits of imagination, becomes its own practice and discipline.

By exploring our ancestral ties to the mantis shrimp, we begin to understand that perception is not just a physiological function—it is a cultural inheritance, shaped by generations of adaptation and survival. Art becomes a bridge between worlds, allowing us to see with imaginary, magical eyes and step into realities beyond our own.

This installation invites viewers into a surreal, high-art-meets-pop-culture landscape that blends humour, science, and deep philosophical inquiry. At its core, The Mantis Shrimp Matrix is a meditation on how we make sense of the world, how art allows us to access the unseen, and how ancestral knowledge can reconnect us to forces that exist beyond human awareness.

Experiencing the Matrix

Visitors will interact with custom-built devices designed to simulate the mantis shrimpʼs unique vision and translate it into sound. Since the mantis shrimp perceives light in a way fundamentally different from human sight, sound may offer a more accurate way to experience its multidimensional way of seeing—not as a static image, but as an unfolding, vibrating field of information.

The space also features a coral reef sculpture built from ocean plastic, serving as both an archive and an ecosystem. As an archive, it holds the remnants of what humans discard, a record of our impact on the ocean. As an ecosystem, it reflects

the ways in which life adapts and transforms even in artificial or hostile environments.

Finally, towering shrimp eyes—magnified and iridescent—transmit fragmented narratives from the ocean depths, evoking a presence both alien and deeply ancient. These elements work together to challenge our understanding of perception, inviting us to ask: What else are we not seeing?

Beyond Sight: Art, Empathy, and the Unknown

Through play, abstraction, and an unfiltered curiosity about the unseen, The Mantis Shrimp Matrix explores the intersections of science, art, and the unknown. Just as early humans painted on cave walls to make sense of their world, this project seeks to illuminate the mysteries beyond our sensory limits—not to offer answers, but to invite a deeper engagement with the act of seeing itself.

It is an invitation to step beyond the limits of our own umwelt, to imagine anotherʼs experience, and to find meaning in the collective imagination that makes art, and empathy, possible.

About the Artist

Lip Talk (Sarah K. Pedinotti) is an artist, musician, and storyteller whose work blurs the boundaries between sound, performance, and visual art. Known for her experimental approach and immersive creative worlds, her work is rooted in curiosity, play, and deep observation of the natural and surreal. The Mantis Shrimp Matrix is her first large-scale installation, expanding her ongoing exploration of perception, identity, and the unseen.

She has collaborated with artists including Laraaji, Hayley Williams (Paramore), The Secret Machines, and Kalbells, and continues to push the boundaries of artistic storytelling through sound, video, and interactive experiences.

About ATTA Gallery

Founded in 2010, ATTA Gallery is the first gallery in Thailand to specialize in Contemporary Art Jewelry.

 

In 2022, ATTA Gallery has broadened its scope to offer a variety of distinctive contemporary art, craft and design, with a special interest in materiality of art, by local and international creators.

 

Curatorial program at ATTA Gallery aims to create dialogues between different types of contemporary visual art objects exhibiting together in exhibition settings, dialogues between local and international artists, as well as internal dialogues between the viewers and the pieces shown.

 

ATTA Gallery invites and assists visitors to the gallery to connect with collectible contemporary visual art objects that are expressive of their unique identities so that they can add them to their houses and make their home environments reflective of how individualistic they and their lifestyles truly are.

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