Arvida Byström

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Emma Arvida Byström (born October 4, 1991 near Stockholm ) is a Swedish model , photographer and artist .

Life

Arvida Byström grew up near Stockholm. Today she lives in London , Los Angeles and Stockholm. She has been a passionate photographer since she was 12.

Byström gained national attention through an advertising campaign by Adidas , in which she openly showed her hairy legs and campaigned for self-confidence in women, as she then reaped a shit storm on the Internet and even received threats of rape . Adidas assisted the model and called it "an honor to work with artists like Arvida because of their creativity, diversity and unique ideas".

Byström is also committed to free menstruation. According to her own statements, however, she does not want to make a feminist statement with her appearance , but has consciously decided against full body hair removal and free menstruation for personal reasons . She is of the opinion that one should not blindly follow any trends, but only one's own conscience and one's own feelings.

Byström works with Grace Miceli and other women at the Art Babe Gallery , where women in particular can exchange ideas creatively. This is to help other people identify themselves and their feelings. She also participates in the selfie stick aerobics.

Together with Molly Soda, Arvida Byström published the book Pics or It Didn't Happen: Images Banned From Instagram in 2015 , which shows 270 images that have been deleted from Instagram due to their revealing content . The book also explains that the female (upper) body is more often controlled and censored than the male body. Byström stated that it was a shame that almost exclusively white women took part in the project.

In 2014, self-portraits by Byström were shown in a separate photo exhibition in Limehouse in East London. Further pictures were shown in 2015 in the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf at the EgoUpdate exhibition . From January 12th to April 8th, 2018 some of her pictures will be on display in the exhibition Virtual Normality Netzkünstlerin 2.0 in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig .

Publications

  • Pics or It Didn't Happen: Images Banned From Instagram. (together with Molly Soda and Chris Kraus). Prestel, Munich 2015. ISBN 978-3-7913-8307-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Emma Arvida Bystrom on vice.de: There Will Be Blood. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ Arvida Byström - 1 book - Perlentaucher. In: perlentaucher.de. March 10, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Dazed: Sugar-coated intimates. In: dazeddigital.com. December 11, 2013, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Arvida Byström: Model is threatened with rape because of a photo with hair on her legs. In: presse-nachrichten.com. October 7, 2017, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Wonderland: PROFILES: ARVIDA BYSTROM. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Christoph Rau: Arvida Byström - Through the rough to the stars. In: asperda.wordpress.com. August 14, 2014, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine: Because of photo with hairy legs: Model is threatened with rape. In: hna.de. September 25, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Stern: Swedish model shows herself unshaven - and is threatened with rape. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Model shows hairy legs - and is threatened with rape! In: brigitte.de. October 9, 2017, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Model Arvida Byström gets rape threats after an advert featured her hairy legs. In: bbc.co.uk. January 1, 1970, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  11. ↑ a b Grace Banks: Pics Or It Didn't Happen: reclaiming Instagram's censored art. In: theguardian.com. September 20, 2017, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Menstruation Taboo Challenged By VICE 'There Will Be Blood' Series (PHOTOS) - HuffPost. In: huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Dazed: Petra Collins' visual guide to girl power. In: dazeddigital.com. April 28, 2015, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Dazed: This show brings together art's most current talents. In: dazeddigital.com. August 13, 2015, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Selfie Stick Aerobics Is A Fun & Subtle Way To Promote Body Positivity - HuffPost. In: huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2014, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Dazed: The photos Instagram doesn't want you to see. In: dazeddigital.com. March 6, 2017, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  17. ↑ vice.de: The Artists Who've Collected Images Banned from Instagram. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Arvida Byström: Pics or It Didn't Happen. In: randomhouse.de. March 11, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Angela Gruber: Images of women online: "Pubic hair is still a problem on Instagram". In: Spiegel Online . January 11, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Caroline Kurz: Selfies by Arvida Byström. (No longer available online.) In: ignant.com. December 1, 2014, archived from the original on February 1, 2018 ; accessed on March 11, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ignant.com
  21. ^ Ivy - The Kulturrundschau from October 30, 2015 - keyword - arvida byström - pearl diver. In: perlentaucher.de. October 30, 2015, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Over-staged self. In: sueddeutsche.de . October 31, 2015, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): "Virtual Normality": Are net artists the new feminists? - Art - DW - January 11, 2018. In: dw.com. March 9, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  24. ^ Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig: Virtual Normality - Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig. In: mdbk.de. March 11, 2018, accessed March 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bystrom, Arvida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Byström, Emma Arvida (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish model
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH near Stockholm