The art exhibition planned to show the leaked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and more celebrities thanks to an iCloud hack on canvas has been cancelled, with the artist XVALA saying he wasn’t comfortable with it anymore.
He admitted that the public attention garnered from the show, scheduled to take place next month, was too much. Several petitions were created against it.
“It wasn’t just about being ‘hacked’ images anymore, but now presented in the media as stolen property,” the artist said in a statement, E! News reports. “People were identifying with Jennifer Lawrence’s and Kate Upton’s victimization, much more than I had anticipated, which is powerfully persuasive.”
The gallery’s owner, Cory Allen, called it “inspiring” that so many people took action against the show.
"This concept was always about self-examination in our current culture. Why we feel the need to know and cross the lines of other individual's privacy,” continued XVALA.
Some of the leaked photos have been confirmed to be real, but others, like Victoria Justice and McKayla Marony, first denied their validity before releasing statements through their lawyers saying they would threaten legal action against all those who publish them.
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