Transparent Womb by El Ultimo Grito
Artist collective El Ultimo Grito inserts one inflatable inside another for a piece called ‘The User Inside the Womb’ at London’s ICA Studio. “We thought it would be interesting to try producing a double inflatable, one inside the other one, as conceptually it refers to this idea of the pressure of the environment over the individual,” say the artists. “If we were to construct the user inside the womb you would be able to see how the difference in air pressure affects the two structures and by introducing a timer on the outside we could enhance this symbiotic movement.”
Balloon Hats Where You Least Expect Them
Photographer Charles Eckert and balloon artist Addi Somekh team up to travel around the world, shooting thousands of photographs of people wearing balloon hats. The resulting images bring are sometimes funny, sometimes touching, placing often-absurd inflatable creations in unexpected places.
Floating Kinetic Drawing Sculpture by Karina Smigla-Bobinski
A gigantic transparent sphere is filled with helium, covered in charcoal spikes and allowed to bounce around a gallery space, marking up the previously pristine white walls. The result is a sort of kinetic drawing experiment, manipulated by visitors engaging with the exhibition but otherwise ruled by chance.
Dreamy Balloon Landscapes by William Forsythe
William Forsythe’s traveling installation Scattered Crowd hangs thousands of translucent white balloons inside galleries, museums and other spaces around the world, bringing a sense of the surreal to architecturally significant spaces.
