Isaac Julien: All That Changes You. Metamorphosis

Victoria Miro presents the world premiere of the five-screen installation of Isaac Julien’s acclaimed film installation All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, accompanied by new photographic works.

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.

The work draws inspiration from thinkers who explore how transformation shapes who we are and how we live, including writers Octavia Butler, Naomi Mitchison, Ursula K. Le Guin and philosopher Donna Haraway. Their ideas weave through the film’s layered images and lyrical dialogue, beginning with Donna Haraway reading from her provocative thesis, Staying with the Trouble, 2016. Haraway’s voice, outlining her theory of ‘becoming-with’ – living with other species rather than seeking to dominate them – grounds and sets the tone for the film. Haraway reminds us that ‘trouble’ once meant ‘disturbance’ suggesting that to live we must embrace uncertainty rather than fleeing from it. For Julien, metamorphosis is both survival and an act of imagination, a way of learning to live in a world in flux.

Lead image: Isaac Julien, Metamorphosis I (All That Changes You. Metamorphosis), 2025
Inkjet Print on Ilford Gold Fibre Gloss mounted on aluminium © Isaac Julien
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

Free

Tuesday–Saturday: 10am–6pm