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