PHARES

Phares is a monumental interactive sculpture by Milène Guermont.
This monument made of golden aluminium and light can be considered as a “beacon of headlights”.
The first location of this 97-foot-high artwork was next to the Obelisk on Place de [la Concorde] in Paris where the first public test of electric lighting in the world happened in 1843.
Passers-by can transmit their heart rhythms directly into PHARES via a built-in sensor, and then see it sparkle as it replicates the heart beats in real-time.
In February 2016, PHARES also interacted with the Eiffel Tower and the Montparnasse Tower that illuminate at the rhythm of the same heartbeat.
It is labelled “COP21 / CMP11“, “PARIS FOR THE CLIMATE” and by the international jury of “2015 international year of light“ launched by UNESCO.