A floating cloud over Covent Garden

Until September 27 London’s Convent Garden Market will host an installation titled Heartbeat by French artist Charles Pétillon: stretching 54 meters in length and 12 meters in width, 100,000 white latex balloons tied together and crossed by lights float across the ceiling of the South Hall. Conceived to imitate the beating of a heart, a white light pulsates gently inside the structure. The optical effect is of a large white cloud. Balloons symbolize joy and Pétillon uses them to change the way people perceive the places they know well, inviting them to look at things with new eyes.