XVALA to include the scandalous leaked nudes in his celebrity "Fear Google" campaign.
Despite the ongoing media debate over whether the recent leaking of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton’s nude photos should be treated as a sex crime, an artist who goes by the name XVALA is planning to put the scandalous images on display in his upcoming art show. Cory Allen Contemporary Art announced Wednesday that the nudes will be publicly displayed alongside other celebrity images XVALA has collected from Google’s search engine over the past seven years.
XVALA’s “Fear Google” campaign is comprised of images of popular celebrities “in their most vulnerable and private moments,” which the artist discovered were easily accessible on the popular search engine.
“We share our secrets with technology,” said XVALA in a statement. “And when we do, our privacy becomes accessible to others.”
“In today’s culture, everybody wants to know everything about everybody. An individual’s privacy has become everyone else’s business. It has become cash for cache.”
The exhibit, entitled “No Delete,” is scheduled to open on Oct. 30 at Cory Allen Contemporary Art’s The Showroom in the Warehouse Arts District in St. Petersburg, Florida. The leaked photos of Lawrence and Upton, as well as nude images of Scarlett Johansson and the infamous shaved-head portrait of Britney Spears, will be “printed on canvas, life-size and unaltered,” except for the “Fear Google” logo which will strategically cover certain portions of the images.
“XVALA appropriating celebrity compromised images and the overall ‘Fear Google’ campaign has helped strengthen the ongoing debate over privacy in the digital era,” publicist Cory Allen said, in today’s statement. “The commentary behind this show is a reflection of who we are today. We all become ‘users’ and in the end, we become ‘used’.”
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