The exhibition About One Thing shows the process by which Josef Čapek's literary world is transformed into sensory objects through the body of artist Lim Jeong Soo. While translating Čapek's Tales of a Dog and a Cat into Korean, the author focused on perceiving things from a non-human* perspective. The non-human perspective goes beyond the scope of spoken or written language, and it is precisely these overlaps or cracks that the artist transforms into her own visual codes. Through translation and creation, the stories materialize into the form of a book and physical objects. The exhibition can also be seen as an attempt to transform something very familiar and return it to our everyday experience in transformed form. 

Lim Jeong Soo (*1988, Seoul) is a multimedia artist who studied sculpture at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in Dominik Lang's studio. Lim Jeong Soo studies Czech linguistics at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, focusing on film and literature. In her work, she explores the relationship between humans and non-human beings, physicality, and the transformation between different beings. She develops these themes through myths, legends, and the boundaries between belief, desire, and the fictional world, which she explores in the form of installations, objects, videos, and performances. She works in Prague and Korea. Lim Jeong Soo had solo exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art Prague at Jelení Gallery (Whale's Legs, 2024). She had participated in international residencies, including Kunstort ELEVEN in Germany (2019), Artist Residencies Enschede in the Netherlands (2017), and Bitamine Faktoria in Spain (2016). Her work has been presented at the Riga Performance Festival in Latvia (2021), the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen in Germany (2019), and ANIMA MUNDI in Venice (2019). 

*"Since the turn of the millennium, anthropology, cultural geography, and other related sciences have increasingly focused on more-than-human actors and their active co-creation of the world we live in." (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, annotation to the more-than-human workshop, 2023) This line of thinking is also strongly reflected in visual arts.