At the Fruttiere di Palazzo Te, the Apulean leap of director Isaac Julien

The interior walls of the Fruttiere are entirely covered with mirrors. Ten screens arranged in random order accommodate in different temporal fragments the scenes of the film installation All That Changes You, Metamorphosis, just extended until next 31 May, which Isaac Julien, a multifaceted artist and director of Caribbean origin, who grew up between London and California, has created for the Cinquecentenary of Palazzo Te, interpreting with his genius the theme of Apulean metamorphosis present in the chamber of Cupid and Psyche. Watching the 23' of the film starring Sheila Atim and Gwendoline Christie means taking a journey through space and time, gliding with the senses to the redwood forests of California's Redwood National and State Park, Charles Jencks' postmodern Cosmic House in London without ever leaving Mantua and the summer palace of the Gonzaga family, their beloved dogs and horses. The invitation is to sublimate the emotional turmoil to find foothold in the humanism of Palazzo Te and the balmy explorations that Julien undertakes in the Hall of the Giants, in the Secret Garden, following the two actresses along a path of perceptions and allegories that, after all, began with Giulio Romano and has never stopped. The advent of the British filmmaker produces the effect of an absolutely cathartic visual zephyr, projecting us into a regenerating philosophical, anthropological and ecological dimension.