Jan Pypers: fragments of a dream
16 september 2025
Jan Pypers is known for his cinematic, poetic and mysterious images that balance between reality and imagination. When viewing his photographs on a phone or computer screen, it is almost impossible to believe that these are depictions of painstakingly constructed scale models. Pypers uses his images to gain hold of what we normally cannot grasp: our memories, but also our disrupted relationship with nature. The Belgian photographer builds elaborate models reminiscent of film sets, photographs them and subsequently destroys them. Only the photograph remains, a fleeting trace of memory, briefly made tangible. Like fragments of a dream.
