Betty Ogun: LOVE/FIGHT
18th September, 2025 – 23rd October, 2025
Tache
33 Percy Street
London W1T 2DF
Betty Ogun’s debut solo exhibition at Tache Gallery explores Black womanhood through bold, layered works that balance resistance, beauty and cultural reflection.
This autumn, London-based multidisciplinary artist Betty Ogun presents her debut solo exhibition LOVE/FIGHT at Tache Gallery, running from 18 September to 23 October 2025. The show brings together a bold and varied collection of paintings, photography, textiles, sculpture and video, all exploring themes of Black womanhood through the lenses of femininity, resistance and resilience.
Courtesy of Tache Gallery
Ogun’s practice weaves together abstraction and documentary, drawing on both collective memory and personal experience. Her use of vivid colour, layered texture and expressive form builds a language that is as emotionally charged as it is culturally resonant. The result is work that confronts and questions—while never losing its sense of visual rhythm and energy.
A central highlight of the exhibition is a diptych titled Enjoy and Cheerleader. Here, Ogun turns her attention to the familiar figure of the cheerleader—not as a symbol of simple enthusiasm, but as a site of deeper social complexity. Through bold brushwork and fragmented composition, she pulls apart the iconography of pom-poms, uniforms and choreographed gestures to reveal a more layered commentary on identity, performance and the pressure to conform. Celebration and strain sit side by side, challenging viewers to reconsider what lies beneath the surface of collective expression.
Elsewhere in the show, the Fight series explores themes of conflict, survival and selfhood. Works like Thinking and Mother and Baby Unit, based on women Ogun has encountered, reflect on motherhood as both a transformative experience and a uniquely demanding one. These pieces are quiet yet powerful—reflections on endurance and care without sentimentality.
Running through several of Ogun’s textile works is a recurring checkerboard motif, a visual metaphor that nods to strategy, decision-making and the calculated moves life often demands. As in a game of chess, her works suggest, every position holds weight.
LOVE/FIGHT is a show that balances strength with subtlety. Ogun’s work doesn’t shout, but it speaks clearly—inviting viewers to sit with the tensions, the beauty and the complexity of being seen and heard in a world that so often looks away.
Betty Ogun: LOVE/FIGHT opens on the 18th of September, 2025 until the 23rd of October, 2025 at Tache
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