All That Changes You. Metamorphosis at the Cosmic House

The Cosmic House in London presented a site-specific installation of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, the most recent moving-image work by Isaac Julien. The single-screen version of the work will be on view in the gallery space from 22 April to 18 December 2026.

The Cosmic House was one of the filming locations of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, a visually poetic exploration of transformation as a defining condition of existence created by Julien in close collaboration with his long-term partner Mark Nash.

The Cosmic House appears alongside California’s redwood forests, a glass house in the Cotswolds, and the frescoed interiors of Palazzo Te—distinct environments that actively shape experience, perception, and the flow of time. Originally conceived as a ten-screen installation for the 500th anniversary of Palazzo Te in Mantua, the site-specific presentation made for The Cosmic House reimagines the original installation through Julien’s encounter with the house, responding to its architecture and ideas. This new iteration foregrounds duration and cyclical return, echoing Charles Jencks and Maggie Keswick’s vision of The Cosmic House as an architectural model of the universe with layered, non-linear time.