Coming 2025: Mnemosyne
A cinematic coming-of-age odyssey in ten painted chapters.
Set across eight global cities—from Venice to Los Angeles—Mnemosyne follows a modern heroine through trials of beauty, identity, and transformation. Each painting tells a standalone story, while together they form a mythic whole. Inspired by The Odyssey, narrated by a chorus, and drawn in a language shaped by fashion, cinema, and classical art.

Edvarda Braanaas is a Norwegian artist based in Oslo and Los Angeles. With a distinctive visual language rooted in pop culture, illustration, and art history, her work blurs the line between high and low, myth and modernity.

She began her career in Venice in the 1980s and earned her MFA in painting at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, followed by a BA in art history at the University of Oslo. After a period of abstract painting under Irma Salo Jæger, Edvarda turned toward stylized figuration and narrative.

From 2010–2019, she lived and worked in Los Angeles, immersed in a culture of shifting identities and aesthetic reinvention. This deeply influenced her exploration of beauty, artificiality, and the female gaze—central themes in her work.

Mnemosyne was conceived and developed in Los Angeles between 2011 and 2014. It is only now, in 2025, that she is ready to share it.