Tanoa Sasraku, Watchlist [detail], 2025. 32 found acrylic paperweights encasing crude oil, Italian velvet-upholstered lacquered wood. Photograph: Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy the artist.
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Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch
Join ICA Creatives alumni Ishy Pryce-Parchment for a reading group in response to Tanoa Sasraku solo exhibition Morale Patch.
Led by Ishy Pryce-Parchment, the group will explore a selection of texts chosen by Sasraku, each highlighting key areas of research that have shaped the development of the exhibition. These readings will offer an opportunity to delve more deeply into its central themes and ideas.
Among the selected works are The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin, and The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe – texts that explore, respectively, the disruptive force of the oil industry and the complexities of the 1980s male psyche.
Chapters will be shared in advance, and the evening will provide a space to connect and expand the discussion around the exhibition’s key themes. No prior knowledge is required.
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.
Join ICA Creatives alumni Ishy Pryce-Parchment for a reading group in response to Tanoa Sasraku solo exhibition Morale Patch.
Led by Ishy Pryce-Parchment, the group will explore a selection of texts chosen by Sasraku, each highlighting key areas of research that have shaped the development of the exhibition. These readings will offer an opportunity to delve more deeply into its central themes and ideas.
Among the selected works are The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin, and The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe – texts that explore, respectively, the disruptive force of the oil industry and the complexities of the 1980s male psyche.
Chapters will be shared in advance, and the evening will provide a space to connect and expand the discussion around the exhibition’s key themes. No prior knowledge is required.
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.
Bio
Ishy Pryce-Parchment (he/they) is a London-based interdisciplinary practitioner working across film, writing, archival research, and socially engaged curatorial practice. Using Black radical poetics and aesthetics, their work thinks through the afterlives of slavery, anti-colonial and racial capitalist contexts, exploring the political potential of collective study toward transnational solidarities. Rooted in Black Study, queer auto/biography, and diasporic poetics, they are interested in non-hierarchical, citational modes of gathering and forms of study that foreground care, attention, and collective learning beyond institutional borders.
Recent projects focus on film curation as a tool for political education and community organising, from guest curating at Atlas Cinema in London to researching experimental cooperatives and exhibition practices. Their writing has been published by Autograph ABP and Skin Deep Magazine, and their debut chapbook was published by Bottlecap Press in 2023. They are currently undertaking a creative development project, supported by Arts Council England, developing socially engaged curatorial approaches in cinema, archives, and moving image that foreground collective study and political action. Ishy is an ICA Creatives alum.
Ishy Pryce-Parchment. Photo by Koice Media.Book tickets
07:00 pm
Thu, 20 Nov 2025
Studio
Thu 20 Nov, 7pm
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