Hacked Images of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton to Be Displayed in Art Exhibit

Well, I guess some people genuinely have no fear of legal repercussions: Cory Allen Contemporary Art (CACA) has announced that the hacked images of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton are the latest additions to the Los Angeles artist XVALA's "Fear Google" campaign.

The image will reportedly be put on full display to the public as part of the upcoming "No Delete" show at CACA's The Showroom in Saint Petersburg, Florida. The show is scheduled to open on October 30th, which gives lawyers for J-Law and Kate well over a month to bring down Thor's hammer on this poorly-planned, ill-advised fiasco.

"XVALA appropriating celebrity compromised images and the overall ‘Fear Google' campaign has helped strengthen the ongoing debate over privacy in the digital era," said publicist Cory Allen. "The commentary behind this show is a reflection of who we are today. We all become ‘users' and in the end, we become ‘used.'"

As if challenging law enforcement to put its foot down, XVALA plans to print the leaked images on a life-sized canvas, completely unaltered. The whole purpose behind the exhibit is to display a seven-year collection of compromised celebrity images that were either taken by paparazzi or stolen by hackers. It'll everything from Britney Spears' shaved head portrait to Scarlett Johansson's nudes. Except with one modification: a "Fear Google" logo will cover all the naughty bits. This adds an extra layer of illegality to this entire mess, since XVALA isn't just displaying copyrighted images without permission, but altering them as well.

"In today's culture, everybody wants to know everything about everybody. An individual's privacy has become everyone else's business," said XVALA, by way of justifying this terrible decision. "It has become cash for cache."

Yeah, this has "cease-and-desist" written all over it. I'll be stunned if the mountain of takedown notices doesn't reach higher than The Wall in the icy north of Westeros.

Via: E! Online

Credit: Paul A. Hebert/AP