All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, 2025, is a vivid, sweeping, visual poem about change, what it means to transform, to adapt and to survive. Commissioned to celebrate 500 years of Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy (where it is currently on view) and exhibited here for the first time as a five-screen installation, Julien’s latest work moves between science fiction, philosophy, ecology and art, imagining new forms of life and identity beyond the human.
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Isaac Julien’s acclaimed film installation All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, centres on two commanding characters who drive both its emotional depth and intellectual force, portrayed by renowned performers Sheila Atim and Gwendoline Christie. Atim embodies Lilith, a composite figure influenced by two of Octavia Butler’s protagonists, reimagined as a symbolic presence that represents evolution and renewal.
Christie portrays Naomi, a role inspired in part by Naomi Mitchison’s speculative novel Memoirs of a Spacewoman. Mark Nash began adapting that work into a screenplay in the early 1990s, a creative starting point that ultimately informed the development of All That Changes You
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The work is accompanied by an extensive new essay by Lorenzo Giusti, Director, GAMeC, Bergamo and curator of Isaac Julien, All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, Palazzo Te. In addition, the photographic works on view feature commentary by Vladimir Seput.
Main image credit: Isaac Julien Satellite (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis), 2025
Inkjet Print on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss mounted on aluminium
110 x 147 cm
43 1/4 x 57 7/8 in
© Isaac Julien
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
