Charles Pétillon’s Heartbeat looks like a giant cumulonimbus cloud hovering above visitors’ heads at London’s Covent Garden.
Paris-based artist Charles Pétillon has a reputation for filling abandoned spaces with ethereal balloon formations. For his first installation in a public space and his largest undertaking to date, Heartbeat, he injects London’s lively and historic Covent Garden with 100,000 hovering white balloons.