Kaat Pype has been making unique portraits for many years. She often works with an assistant who takes the place of the subject. Pype has now bundled all these stand-in images in a book. The same man stands in front of the camera...When does an image of someone become a portrait? Does the stand-in gain his own identity through hundreds of images? Will he become a character? Will the viewer learn something more about him? What we know for sure is that Kaat Pype shows something here that did not seek attention, something that would otherwise not be shown

AUTHOR	Kate Pipe
TITLE	Stand In
YEAR	2023
PERFORMANCE	Hardcover + stand-in cover
PUBLISHER	Stockman's Art Books
ISBN	978 94 64 36347 0
FORMAT	16x24.5cm
PAGES	170 pages, 154 color images
LANGUAGE
SIGNED	Yes

Kaat Pype has been building a unique, authentic universe for a decade and a half. As a mixed media artist, she continuously reinvents herself, to the rhythm of her characteristic untempered freedom. She experiments with the most diverse forms of expression: performance, dance, photography, film, sculpture, installation and all possible crossovers. In her visual language - both her commissioned work and her free work - the so-called 'normal' transforms into something surprisingly strange and vice versa. Her work is imbued with a childlike wonder, a theatrical power, a dazzling imagination full of absurd, grotesque inspirations. There is often a sadness lurking beneath the surface, a loss, a pain. Pype feels and investigates the human psyche, the great emotions, existence in an attempt to understand them better. She shows and decontextualizes the everyday and self-evident, points out inconveniences that should remain under the radar, reverses gender roles, challenges expectations and undermines perspectives.

Book STAND-IN - Kaat Pype