The Eden Summer Institute is a situated, evolving artwork that takes place in Eden, North Carolina. It gathers people, practices, and conversations into a shared time and space.
Thug Roi, Extraordinary Rendezvous with My Brother by Pierre Gaignard
Screened from August 18 to September 18, 2025
Thug Roi, Extraordinary Rendezvous with My Brother
Presentation
“Artist’s Bizarre New Project. Pierre Gaignard has created Thug Roi, a fictional biopic as a “message in a bottle” to the Atlanta rapper”
Jerry Portwood, Rolling Stone, February 2016.
Biography
Pierre Gaignard is a French visual artist and researcher whose work—films, sculptures, performances—operates like a form of wild ethnology. Through immersive, often DIY-driven practices, he blends documentary intensity with a ritualistic and magical approach, creating a personal cosmogony where urban myths, technology, and popular culture collide.
He holds a DSRA (equivalent to a PhD in Art) and co-founded Wonder, a collective artist-run space in Paris. Represented by Galerie Éric Mouchet, his work has been shown in major international exhibitions across Italy, South Korea, the USA, Switzerland, Lithuania, Germany, and Spain.
Cinema
Num
Film
Date
Lenght
Period
Type
001
Just a good crash by David De BeyterDavid De Beyter
2016
6 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Documentary • Art
002
Auto-Sculpture I by David De BeyterDavid De Beyter
2015
5 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Documentary • Art
003
Auto-Sculpture II by David de BeyterDavid de Beyter
2017
3 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Documentary • Art
004
Auto-Sculpture III by David de BeyterDavid de Beyter
2017
13 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Documentary • Art
005
A Greatest Possible Distance by Fred CaveFred Cave
2015
4 min (Loop)
08.18. — 09.18.25
Experimental • 3D
006
Love: A simulation of the revelation of Simone Weil by Joe CaveJoe Cave
2023
6 min (Loop)
08.18. — 09.18.25
Experimental • AI
007
Thug Roi, Extraordinary Rendezvous with My Brother by Pierre GaignardPierre Gaignard
2016
48 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Fiction • Musical
008
Fingertips by Olivier JonvauxOlivier Jonvaux
2024
06 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Experimental • Musical • 3D
009
Pirovano by Olivier JonvauxOlivier Jonvaux
2020
15 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Experimental • 3D
010
Illusion by Antoine RenardAntoine Renard
2025
9 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
AI
011
Catharenthus roseus 2020 by Antoine RenardAntoine Renard
2020-
4 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Experimental • AI
012
Crypto-pharmakopoeia by Antoine RenardAntoine Renard
2020
10 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Experimental • AI
013
Untitled Performance by Céleste RogosinCéleste Rogosin
2021
10 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Performance
014
The Edge of Eternity by Céleste RogosinCéleste Rogosin
2025
12 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Experimental • 3D
015
corporating/discorporating by Anhar Salem, Shakeeb Abu HamdanAnhar Salem, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan
2025
6 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Experimental • AI
016
Love & Revenge by Anhar SalemAnhar Salem
2022
31 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Docu-Fiction
017
Grafted-Memory-System (extract I) by Ugo SchiaviUgo Schiavi
2022
6 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Archeology • 3D
018
Grafted-Memory-System (extract II) by Ugo SchiaviUgo Schiavi
2022
8 min
08.18. — 09.18.25
Archeology • 3D
019
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Yuyan WangYuyan Wang
Eden received the first Immersion commission awarded by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and Aperture Foundation in 2015. The Eden Summer Institute is supported by the Reidsville Area Foundation, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Villa Albertine, and agnès b. It is operated by FAFA Rockingham County, with the support of the Salvation Army of Eden, University of North Carolina Greensboro, The Eden Preservation Society, Barbour Studio & Gallery, Russell's Starter & Alternator, Clarence Hale Motor Sales, individuals, and friends.
