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‘turning thirty’ is a series of paintings exploring notions of memory, identity, and expectations. Through twenty-nine paintings on paper, Oda Tungodden has traced her life not only to take stock but also to invent and curate. The artist has used the slowness of painting as a resistance to the fast pace that often dictates our modern existence- to carve out some space for reflection. She has visited what felt like a million different lives, each filled to the brim by experiences and memories. The paintings are diary entries of moments revealing a part of her story, or the reconstruction of …