"Björk returns for her 6th cover of i-D, this time with her go-to collaborator and chosen family, Arca. The
two of them met for the first time in September 2013, right as the Icelandic cultural icon walked off stage after the last show of her Biophilia tour. They hit it off and danced all night. The Venezuelan artist and producer also known as Alejandra Ghersi was quickly invited to collaborate as a producer on Björk’s Grammy-nominated ninth studio album, Vulnicura, an intimate and deeply painful record documenting the split from her daughter’s father. Together they embarked on the project’s world tour before coming together again to create the 2017 album Utopia. Björk has since described their finding of one another as the strongest musical relationship she’s had. Arca describes it as “layered in its depth and multiplicity; simple, messy, transcendental, joyous, beguiling, sisterly, snakelike, emotional, tender, meaningful and mysterious”.
Now, for i-D’s anniversary issue, Björk and Arca have written personal letters to each other about the nature of family, their very special and ever-evolving relationship, and the song that was written about it."
