Bengali/Italian Fusion, experimental

I’m Jinia, a multi-disciplinary creative, originally from Rome, with Bangladeshi heritage. I’ve spent the last 11 years in London, where I’ve lived many lives, from artist with an installation and performance based practice, to creative technologist making interactive digital experiences, to working as a creative in advertising, and briefly studying anthropology of food. All of my experiences have married perfectly into Fugazzi Fusion, where I express myself creatively with food as a concept. This year, I’ve been fascinated by using food to respond to creative briefs, exploring how it can visually and experientially communicate an idea or feeling. I spent my formative years in Rome, where I’ve refined my knowledge of traditional Italian cuisine with a focus on high quality produce and simple techniques. In my young adult years, once I moved out, I began cooking traditional Bengali recipes passed down from my family. Here I learnt how to navigate the complex balancing of herbs, oils, and spices. Over time, I developed a style of cooking that uses my cultural influences as a benchmark to innovate new flavours and techniques manifesting in a modern and playful sensory experience of nostalgia and adventure. Fugazzi Fusion perhaps now lies somewhere between the comfort of tradition and eating as a love language, to a more imaginative, concept oriented studio that explores the possibilities of storytelling and experience through food.