If Pierre Gaignard's work is comparable to a raw ethnology, it's first and foremost because his films, sculptures and performances are objects of study that do not detach themselves from their subject: when, for example, he takes an interest in Atlanta rap, he proceeds in a documentary mode that is imbued with an energy that fully absorbs and conveys what this music transmits. In this way, magic and ritual are never far from his practice, so much so that he creates the conditions for a personal cosmogony where big data meets popular balls, where technique is happily misused in the service of the barbecue. Pierre Gaignard's do-it-yourself aesthetic has nothing retro about it, but opens onto a dystopian poetics where meat juice is the equal of abstract painting. His urban shamanism (which often takes place in the context of the admirable Wonder) is a scrappy, defiant form of vitality, one of the means of resisting the capitalist order in its dancing capacity to invest forms in disinheritance. His approach could be seen as tending to the weeds. (Fabien Danesi, 2018) Pierre Gaignard is an artist and a researcher, holding a DSRA (Diplôme Supérieure de Recherche en Art, equivalent to a PhD). He is co-founder of Le Wonder, an artist-run-space in Paris. He is represented by Galerie Éric Mouchet in Paris (France) and Brussels (Belgium). Since 2010, his work has been exhibited in France and internationally (Italy, South Korea, USA, Switzerland, Lithuania, Germany, Spain).