Exhibition: Broken in the Right Places

Broken in the Right Places is an exhibition all about embracing our imperfections and finding beauty in our flaws through art, music, and story.

Lola JIblazee is a New York-based artist, born in 1985 in Tbilisi, Georgia. They grew up during a tumultuous period in Georgia’s recent history, marked by poverty, drugs, gang violence, power outages, and other extreme environments. Education options were limited, and classical art did not appeal to Lola. Instead, they turned to iconography as a medium because to Lola it offered room for interpretation, and it felt closer to the contemporary art they were intrigued by. After immigrating to NYC in their early twenties, they explored multidisciplinary art, drawing inspiration from the interplay of politics and religion. Lola describes themselves as a “documentarian of internal truth,” using art to explore their identity without fear while questioning their roots and coming to terms with what is “real” to them.

Broken in the Right Places:

Lola received a later in life (age 37) diagnosis of ASD. This diagnosis inspired them to reevaluate their life and creative vision, pushing them to explore past traumas through their art. Suddenly, as the series was near completion, their father passed away in their childhood home. This shift took them back to their homeland to pay their respects and honor their father. So, the last pieces of the show are being made in Tbilisi, at Lola’s childhood home, where they have not created anything for over twenty years. The core idea of the exhibition is encapsulated in Lola’s words: “If your heart is broken, you have a heart.