Biography
Judith Engelen creates visual, associative performances in which she combines fast technology with slow literature. She graduated from the Toneelacademie in Maastricht in 2023, after completing a master’s degree in clinical psychology at KULeuven. Her work maintains a strong connection with psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Through technology, she develops alienating images that hover between dream and perception. Alongside her own work, she has appeared in projects by, among others, Michiel Vandevelde, Charbel-Joseph H. Boutros, and Miet Warlop. During her studies at the Toneelacademie, she interned with DE HOE (DE HOE onderbreekt and Radio Insomnia).
In residentie I met you once, I loved you twice
05.05.2026 – 13.05.2026
Long ago, humans had four legs, four arms, two heads, and two genitals. Their shape was round. They resembled their ancestors: the sun, the earth, and the moon. Until they were cleaved in two. Since then, they have spent the rest of their lives searching for their lost other half.
In I met you once, I loved you twice, Judith Engelen starts from Plato’s myth of lost other halves. In this visual representation, she depicts the desire to love and the mistrust that makes this love impossible. In an era of disinformation where the truth seems irrelevant, it becomes increasingly difficult to know what is real and who you can still trust. Using sculptures and new technologies, Engelen constructs a world where the boundaries between reality and imagination blur.
