This hipster spa-slash-art-exhibit is peak Brooklyn

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The latest art-world pop-up is a meditation on NYC’s trendy spas.

The Soothing Center is part gallery, part ramshackle New Age studio, where all the “treatments” are free.

“We’ve become pawns to get money,” Soothing Center curator Jesse Bandler Firestone tells The Post. “When you go online and do a video meditation, halfway through the therapy you’ll get an ad for Bacardi.”

After challenging artists to create “therapies aimed at reconnecting the body back to itself” at last year’s Art Basel, Bandler Firestone has now brought the experience to Brooklyn’s Trestle Projects in Gowanus.

There are various experiential pieces designed to alleviate the anxiety that folks face in this modern, tech-obsessed world, such as a wooden “sound bath” device that emits rhythmic vibrations, and a mask that records your breathing pattern and plays it back to you.

The space resembles a grungy artist’s loft — some pieces are sectioned off by fabric curtains, and there’s no central air conditioning. It’s the kind of place that might have appeared in an early episode of “Girls,” though Bandler Firestone insists that the vibe is inclusive.

“The body is the main access point [to the art],” he says. “Everybody has a body. Everybody has senses.”

Some elements of the the Soothing Center are unexpectedly disarming — and relaxing.

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