Arvida Byström (SE, 1991)
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Arvida Byström (°1991) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and Paris, France.
Arvida Byström's work deals with the internet and its social,aesthetic and commercial implications. Her hyper-feminine aesthetics explore the complexities of femininity, identity, body image, social dynamics, emerging technologies and economic principles through primary photography, performance and sculpture work. Well known for her fruits in lingerie, where she plays with language and contextuel image-thinking, she was one of the first artists to artistically fight censorship on social media and the biased gender context towards nudity in these fora. Her most recent serie with Artificial Intelligence sex doll Harmony, in which she trains the doll as her digital yet physical avatar, she tackles the context of self love & expression, the power and limits of AI and standards of beauty. Her performances, lately at V&A museum London, are a continuation of the discourse set by artist as Abramović & Ulay.
Arvida Byström’s work has been exhibited internationally and featured in collaborations with leading cultural institutions and brands such Horsens Art Museum in Denmark, Fotografiska Berlin and New York, V&A Londen. Currently her solo exhibition ‘Who’s your Daddy’ is on view at OK Linz.
