“Synesthesia” combines the sense of smell with the memories of the Cypriot Refugees that lost their homes in 1974 during the Turkish invasion. Growing up in a divited country, Panayiota heard many stories about the war. What stood out the most was her grandmother’s words about her lost homeplace: “The city was full of orange trees and everywhere you went the smell of orange blossoms prevailed”. Even though Panayiota never visited her grandma’s city, she created “Synesthesia” which combines a visual and smell-related meta-memory of orange trees near the seashore.
Panayiota Georgiade is an artist based in Cyprus. From a young age she found herself drawing in every textbook and paper that she could find. She decided to pursue art by joining a local art school for about 6 years. There she learned to master almost every fine art technique and improved her drawing skills. Panayiota is now attending the Cyprus University of Technology at the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts.
