Resilience

 

Resilience runs as a golden thread through Vivekas work.

Fractures, wounds, and silences are not erased but transformed into luminous traces of survival. These projects confront rupture and pain directly, showing how brokenness can be reassembled into strength, and how fragility itself can become a source of beauty.

Kintsugi- Broken is Beautiful

This series is inspired by the Japanese philosophy of kintsugi, where broken ceramics are repaired with gold. In my work, the cracks become metaphors for emotional wounds and their healing.

The project first unfolded in a dual-space exhibition: one side showing the technical process of breaking and mending, the other delving into the emotional landscapes of pain, vulnerability, and recovery. Paintings, sculptures, and installations together explored the tension between destruction and renewal.

By highlighting scars instead of hiding them, Kintsugi redefines brokenness not as failure but as beauty. The works become a meditation on fragility and resilience—how wounds can transform into sources of strength.

  • Spill the tea

  • Kintsugi Fenix

  • The Hug

  • Mixed Feelings

  • Feeling Red.

  • Struck Inside

  • Before Kintsugi

  • After Kintsugi

The Golden Break-Off

This project unfolded as an exhibition-ritual. In the opening performance, Viveka Biondic shattered thirty plates, each symbolizing a year of her life. Every break became an act of pain, release, and renewal. Yet one plate — the 28th — resisted, remaining intact. The 30th plate was given away, to be broken after her 31st birthday, extending the cycle into the future.

The exhibition evolved through multiple layers: a video of the opening performance, a video performance documenting the act of collecting the fragments, and the artworks that emerged from the process. From the broken pieces, a large golden canvas was created, all shards painted in gold and arranged around the unbroken 28th plate — the one rupture that never happened.

Alongside abstract paintings and monotypes made with fragments of broken plates, the installation became a meditation on destruction and healing, fragility and endurance. The Golden Break-Off continues to expand with new performances and works, reflecting how even unbroken pain — the fractures that never occur — can shape us into resilience and wholeness.

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  • Glacial Soul

  • Somwhere Only we Know

  • New List Item

Golden Fractures

This work investigates the wounds not inflicted by the world, but by our own thoughts and words. The violence we whisper to ourselves often cuts the deepest—yet within that same voice lies the power to heal.

The performance took place live at the Museo de Pirotecnia Tultepec, in front of an audience. Over thirty raw minutes, the artist became both wound and healer. Black paint, poured directly onto the body, embodied the cruelty of self-inflicted words. With hands, feet, and every movement pressed against the canvas, those words were carved into its surface. Later, gold poured over the darkness—an act of tenderness, a reclamation of strength.

The space filled with layered whispers: the inner voices that break us and the ones that lift us. The monumental 4 x 5 meter canvas remains as a silent witness—a scarred, golden skin that holds the memory of pain, resistance, and rebirth.

Fragments

Fragments is an exploration of what remains when wholeness is no longer the goal. In this series, incomplete frames enclose fragments of female bodies, resting against backgrounds where traces of nature and rusted metal meet. Each element carries its own memory — fragile, corroded, powerful.

The project is currently in its early stages, growing piece by piece, like the very fragments it seeks to portray. It is a quiet study of presence through absence, and beauty through what is left behind.