Frankie Jenner is an experienced Researcher, Writer and Storyteller with an academic background in Art History, exploring elements of visual culture.
DAZED MENA, ‘CREATIVITY IN THE AGE OF CHAOS’ (NOVEMBER, 2024)
FLYING TO FORGET: A VIGNETTE OF AMMAN’S PIGEON FANCIER
‘I am a pigeon addict, from a family of pigeon addicts’ Hamada announces over his rooftop. When everything had crumbled around him, he held onto flight, a stirring articulation of grief, chaos, pain and then … the place beyond.
COLLABORATION WITH FAMOUS FOR MY DINNER PARTIES, BERLIN, JAN 2024
THE WHOPPER VIRGINS, PT 2: SOY BOYS AND EGG SLONKING — WHERE ONLINE SUBCULTURES COLLIDE
What does it mean when those who preach a return to a ‘natural’ diet also sell supplements for those in a pinch? And how do the ideas behind the ‘Whopper Virgins’ relate to those on finds on Infowars?
COLLABORATION WITH FAMOUS FOR MY DINNER PARTIES, BERLIN, JAN 2024
THE WHOPPER VIRGINS, PT 1: BATTLE FOR THE CROWN IN THE VIRAL ONLINE SPHERE
In 2008, Burger King set out to beat its competitors with a controversial ad campaign: What do the “Whopper Virgins” say about today’s viral food-scape?
Contribution to the exhibition through my research on pickling and fermentation.
GRASSI MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY, LEIPZIG
DEC. 2022 - JUL. 2023
FERMENTING: PERSPECTIVES ON ‘EAST’
I explore pickles, processes of fermentation, and its metaphorical significance as a lens through which we can explore our social history. Offering insight on how the work of Slavs and Tatars speaks to the concept of fermentation as a metaphor.
LEONARDO, MIT JOURNAL
DEC. 2022
SWEET & SOUR POWER: THE PRACTICE AND SOCIAL METAPHOR OF PICKLING
Bringing together a series of interviews, I explore how the British Caribbean community sustain London through food.
APPETITE SINGAPORE
DEC. 2022
RE-ENVISION: BRITISH CARIBBEAN FOOD - A CULTURE OF ABUNDANCE
In the second installment of the Sweet & Sour Power series, I look at the artist collective Slavs and Tatars and how their work speaks to the concept of fermentation as a metaphor.
APPETITE SINGAPORE
JUN. 2022
RE-ENVISION: PICKLES (SWEET & SOUR POWER: PICKLE POLITICS)
In the first installment of the Sweet & Sour Power series, I explore pickles, processes of fermentation, and its metaphorical significance as a lens through which we can explore our social history.
APPETITE SINGAPORE
JAN. 2022
RE-ENVISION: PICKLES (SWEET & SOUR POWER: WHAT’S THE BIG DILL?)