By Dayo Showemimo
Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton’s nude photos will be displayed by a Los Angeles artist at an upcoming exhibition.
Cory Allen Contemporary Art (CACA) has announced that the recently leaked images will be among the new additions to artist XVALA’s ‘Fear Google’ concept.
They will be displayed at his upcoming exhibition, named ‘No Delete,’ at the CACA space The Showroom in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
In a statement, he artist’s publicist, Cory Allen, said: ‘XVALA appropriating celebrity compromised images and the overall ‘Fear Google’ campaign has helped strengthen the ongoing debate over privacy in the digital era. The commentary behind this show is a reflection of who we are today. We all become ‘users’ and in the end, we become ‘used.’
The personal photos, which will remain unaltered, will sit alongside other images of celebrities XVALA has collected from Google over the last seven years. In particular, it features those who have had their privacy compromised by the Internet or by paparazzi.
They include Britney Spears’ shaved head and shoulders shot and the leaked naked photographs of Scarlett Johansson, which saw hacker Christopher Chaney sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2012.