THE DRESS

In this project The Dress is not about fabric — it’s about the women who shape it with their presence, power, and story.

Vivekas paintings create the illusion of garments without ever painting a single dress, proving that identity and strength are the true couture. Each work becomes a portrait of defiance, elegance, and the unshakable truth that it’s the woman who makes the dress, never the other way around. In this project the artist experiments with different materials and technique from paper prints to photography and different metals.

Now painted directly on brass and aluminum plates. The shift from canvas to metal underscores endurance, turning fabric into permanence. In its newest form, the project focuses on portraits and details—gloves, hats, accessories—symbols historically tied to femininity. By isolating them, I expose both the codes that confined women and the elegance with which they redefined themselves. Each detail becomes a quiet act of resistance, a fragment of identity, a story in itself.