Woodman Casting X Liz Ocean [repack] -

The final exhibition is half archive, half aquarium. Casts sit on water-filled plinths; video projections of Liz’s underwater movement play across their surfaces. Viewers walk barefoot on wet sand. A single live casting happens each evening—volunteers from the audience, held between Liz’s steady hands and Woodman’s quick-setting stone. Why It Matters Fashion and art casting have long favored the dry, the controlled, the reproducible. Terra Firma / Mare Viva celebrates the opposite: impermanence as beauty, erosion as intimacy, the body as a meeting point between land and sea.

Once dried, the casts are returned to the intertidal zone. Liz choreographs a ritual reclamation: kelp draped over a plaster torso, barnacles colonizing a cast hand, salt crystals blooming inside a hollow ribcage. Over weeks, the ocean etches each piece—softening edges, adding patina, choosing what remains. woodman casting x liz ocean

In the collision of grit and grace, Woodman Casting —renowned for its unflinching, sculptural approach to the human form—joins forces with Liz Ocean , the visionary movement artist and water ritualist. The result is not a campaign, but a living artifact: “Terra Firma / Mare Viva.” The Concept Woodman Casting has always stripped away pretense, favoring honest textures, unretouched skin, and the quiet strength of everyday bodies. Liz Ocean, by contrast, exists in a state of perpetual flux—her performances submerged, suspended, and surrendered to tide pools, currents, and coastal light. The final exhibition is half archive, half aquarium

As Liz Ocean says: “We think we own our shape. The water knows we only borrow it.” A single live casting happens each evening—volunteers from

Models are cast not in sterile studios, but on a tidal flat at dawn. Liz guides them through breathwork and slow, submerged movements. Woodman’s team pours industrial-grade alginate and plaster directly onto skin slick with seawater. The resulting molds capture not just anatomy, but the imprint of a shiver, a held breath, a wave’s sudden slap.

Together, they explore the tension between . The Experience The collaboration unfolds over three acts: