“On the fragile bond of training and discipline, and the loop that binds them.”
 
This video documents a month-long training process involving the artist himself and two Jindo dogs, ‘Mulder’ and ‘Dogget.’
Seemingly perfectly conditioned to human commands such as ‘sit,’ ‘stand,’ and ‘lie down,’ the dogs ultimately react to a faint sound from outside the window near the end of the video and dash out of the frame.
 
■ The medium of discipline: the illusion called ‘reward’
This brief moment of deviation starkly reveals that the bond linking two different worlds under the name of training and discipline was, in fact, sustained by nothing more than the primary mediator of ‘food.’

By demonstrating how easily such a dependent relationship can collapse, the artist metaphorically suggests the necessity of breaking away from the internalized conventions of discipline and recovering an autonomous human nature.
 
■ Expansion toward family and education
The work further extends the environment of discipline into the realms of ‘family’ and ‘education.’ It critically illuminates the ‘home’ as a primary collective in which the value judgments of its members are implanted and internalized irrespective of individual choice.

The trajectory of artistic inquiry: the critical perspective articulated in this work later became a significant conceptual foundation for the second solo exhibition 《Resupination》.

[Artist Note]

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》.