I met you once, I loved you twice

Long ago, humans had four legs, four arms, two heads and two sets of genitals. Their form was round. They resembled their ancestors: the sun, the earth and the moon. Until they were cleaved in two. Ever since, they have spent their lives in search of their lost other half.

In I met you once, I loved you twice, Judith Engelen takes Plato's myth of the lost other half as her starting point. In this visual performance she lays bare the longing to love and the distrust that makes such love impossible. In an age of disinformation, where truth seems beside the point, it grows ever harder to know what is real and who can still be trusted. Through sculptures and new technologies, Engelen builds a world where the boundaries between reality and imagination slip away.