Statements
2003
Park Jung Hyuk

The exhibition's signature work, Training, is a video piece featuring the artist and two Jindo dogs. The artist filmed the two dogs (Mulder and Doggett) over a period of one month, feeding them and training them to follow commands like "sit," "stand," "down," and "lie down." As time passes, the dogs appear to obey the commands, but at the end of the video, a noise outside the window causes them to run out of the frame.
This metaphorical expression of the artist's message: that during the process of training and discipline, food was the only medium connecting the dogs and humans, who are protagonists in different worlds. Just as this subordinate relationship can be disrupted at any time, it also symbolizes the artist's desire to break free from internalized, conventional discipline and become a subject seeking to restore human nature.
The artist directly and indirectly incorporates keywords like family and education into the work, embodying the environment in which this discipline and internalization of ideology take place. I believed that the family was the primary group in which the members' value judgments could be internalized regardless of their own choices, and this idea was continued in my second solo exhibition, 《Resupination》.