Georgia: a much repaired society

This article outlines some afterthoughts about the project “Aesthetics of Repair in Contemporary Georgia”,1 which I organized with the curator Marika Agu. In our visits to Tbilisi, we found a particular distress arising from the gap between the human desire to improve the current situation and the suffering caused by not being able to do so. To traverse this gap, the local people with whom we met had to oscillate between creativity and constraint, anxiety and possibility, repair and brokenness.