Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch at ICA, London opens 6 October 2025

Morale Patch is a new commission by Tanoa Sasraku (b. 1995, Plymouth) featuring process-driven works on paper, found objects, and sculpture. In this solo exhibition, Sasraku examines the seductive and destructive power of oil – its ties to war and national identity – through the mediation of emblems and mementos.  

The multifaceted exhibition demonstrates Sasraku’s rigorous and adaptive practice, showcasing her ability to harness the evocative power of materials for both their narrative resonance and aesthetic force. Working across sculpture, printmaking, drawing, textiles and installation, Sasraku’s hybrid practice is rooted in the material and symbolic properties of land through landscapes, pigments, and minerals, and informed by a personal relationship to textiles and patternmaking. With Morale Patch, Sasraku turns her attention to oil: its materiality, fetishisation, and its role in geopolitics, nationalism, and the economy. 

Vardaxoglou will present a solo booth of Tanoa Sasraku’s work at Art Basel Paris, 24–26 October 2025.