Exclusive Collectors Experience: Book + Photoshoot with The Stand-In + framed duo print 1+1AP

For this Collectors Edition, Kaat Pype will visit you with a stand-in to make a portrait of you or a loved one at a location of your choice. The image of the stand-in and the image of you will be printed and framed to be presented side by side as one work.

This Collectors Edition includes a personal photo shoot and 2 frames with print + BOOK

This edition consists of 1+1AP

You can sign up for a reservation for this shoot until October 30, 2023

Kaat Pype has been making special portraits for many years.

For this she often works together with an assistant, who takes the place of the person portrayed beforehand, so that technique, attitude and concept are well prepared.

Pype has now collected all those stand-in images in a book.

Always the same man in front of the camera, not self-conscious.

Always the same man. Page after page.

Always the same man, functionally present, although it is never about him.

The stand-in's book therefore raises questions.

When does an image of someone become a portrait?

Does the stand-in acquire its own identity through the more than one hundred images?

Will he become a character?

Will the viewer find out more about him?

What we know for sure is that Kaat Pype is showing something here that didn't want attention, something that wouldn't be shown.

Her first book STAND-IN took shape at Katrien Anys' desk, where the two-part cover took on its current form.

The handwritten, stand-in cover, surrounding the printed, bound cover.

It has been a common thread in Kaat Pype's artistic projects for years.

She reverses roles, undermines perspectives.

She decontextualises.

STAND-IN is above all an ode to love, a tribute to her husband.

The book will be available from September 30, 2023.

By ordering it now you invest in the production process.

People who order the book with Collectors Experience will be invited to the book presentation on September 30, 2023 in Kunsthal Ghent, where they will receive their signed copy.

Kaat Pype comes to you with Stand-in at the agreed time for the shoot, the frames are delivered no later than 6 weeks after the shoot.

You can sign up for a reservation for this shoot until October 30, 2023, please email kaat@kaatpype.be to make an appointment or fill in the contact form.

framed print

size: sheet 49x39cm, image 40x30cm

frame: 52x42cm, wood, museum glass

edition: signed 1+1AP

framed print Stand-In

size: paper 49x39cm, image 40x30cm

frame: 52x42cm, wood, museum glass

edition: signed 1+1AP