Pierre Gaignard

Pierre Gaignard (born in 1986, lives and works in Clichy) is an artist, sculptor and director, co-founder of Wonder (artist-run-space) and researcher in the laboratory “Effondrement des Alpes”, ESAAA Annecy.
 
For ten years, he has produced a documentary work composed of sculptures, performances and experimental films, both documentary and fictional. This set of forms is driven by a strong intention: that of bearing witness to time at work and highlighting the survivals that operate there. To do this, he conducts parallel artistic and academic research in DSRA. He questions the relationship that man has with his memory and his environment and, inevitably, with forgetting. His work is a heterogeneous set marked by a social and instinctive imprint and very much anchored in the territories where he has been able to reside: a film on the Rio Grande through the intermediary of depressed birds, a performance with the allure of a shamanic ritual on the edges of the Parisian ring road, or a herbarium based on ruderal plants gathered in an urban environment. The different forms that make up these narratives have a functionality that is sometimes pragmatic, sometimes political. She is inspired by the context that makes up her daily life, but also by a more universal idea about our society.
 
His work has been presented in various exhibitions: at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon (2021), at the Centre d’art l’Onde (2021), at the Centre d’Art Les Tanneries (2019), at the Magasins Généraux (Pantin, 2018), and at the LOOP Barcelona, Camera Camera Art Vilius fairs.He has participated in numerous residencies such as Mécènes du Sud, Providenza, Pianobi (Rome), Le Fresnoy,la Cité des Arts de la Ville de Paris. He received the individual aid to the creation of the Drac ile de France (2020), the development aid DICREAM, CNC (2019)
 
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EXHIBITIONS:
 
// HYPER-CARBONE (05/29-09/04/2021)
// Bagnolet Chamanique 4K (13/03-28/04/2018)
// 2 cups stuffed (30/01-05/03/2016)