Fernando Cacnio, the artist behind UPLift, the female version of the University of the Philippines’ Oblation, denied allegations that he copied the worl of a female Dutch artist.

Netizens noticed similarities between UPLift and “Virgins of the Apeldoorn,” a bronze sculpture created by Elisabet Bea Stienstra which features three statues of women floating at a park in the Netherlands.

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