Victoria Miro presents the world premiere of the five screen installation of Isaac Julien’s acclaimed film work All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, accompanied by a new body of photographic works. On view at London Gallery I from 13 February to 21 March 2026, the exhibition marks a significant moment in Julien’s ongoing exploration of transformation, identity and the poetics of image making.
Originally commissioned to celebrate 500 years of Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy, where it is currently on view, All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, 2025 is here presented for the first time in a five screen configuration. The result is an immersive and expansive installation that surrounds the viewer in a richly layered visual and sonic landscape.
A Visual Poem of Transformation
All That Changes You. Metamorphosis is conceived as a sweeping meditation on change. Moving between science fiction, philosophy, ecology and art history, Julien constructs a work that imagines new forms of life and identity beyond the human. It is both speculative and reflective, grounded in history yet reaching towards possible futures.
Across five synchronised screens, the narrative unfolds not as a conventional story but as a temporal choreography. Landscapes, architectural spaces and figures appear and dissolve, suggesting that transformation is not a singular event but an ongoing process. The installation invites viewers to consider what it means to adapt, to survive and to evolve in a world shaped by environmental, technological and social shifts.
As Lorenzo Giusti, Director of GAMeC, Bergamo and curator of the presentation at Palazzo Te, observes in his accompanying essay, Julien constructs a path that does not follow linear logic, but a temporal choreography in which the places themselves transform, or transform those who pass through them. This insight underscores the exhibition’s central concern with fluidity and becoming.
Dialogue Between Film and Photography
The exhibition is accompanied by new photographic works that extend and deepen the themes of the film installation. These images, presented alongside the moving image work, offer moments of stillness within the broader flow of the installation. They act as fragments or echoes, capturing gestures, spaces and atmospheres that resonate with the cinematic narrative.
Commentary by Vladimir Seput further enriches the presentation, providing critical reflections that frame the photographic works within Julien’s wider practice. Together, film and photography create a dialogue between motion and suspension, duration and instantaneity.
An Immersive Experience
In its five screen format, All That Changes You. Metamorphosis transforms the gallery into a site of encounter. Viewers are not positioned as passive observers but as participants moving through a shifting environment of light, sound and image. The installation’s scale and ambition reflect Julien’s longstanding interest in cinema as a spatial and sculptural medium.
By situating speculative futures alongside historical references and architectural grandeur, Julien blurs distinctions between past and present, human and non human, real and imagined. The exhibition ultimately poses urgent questions about transformation in an era of rapid change, asking how identity might be re conceived in response to ecological and cultural upheaval.
From 13 February to 21 March 2026, Victoria Miro’s London Gallery I becomes a space for contemplation and re imagination. With All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, Isaac Julien offers not only a meditation on change but an invitation to experience it, to move within it and to consider what new forms of life and understanding may yet emerge.