ZANY MEETS ZEN

Part spa, part art exhibit, this Brooklyn installation seeks to soothe

THE latest artworld 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, 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 condition- ing. It’s the kind of place that might have appeared in an early episode of “Girls,” although 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.

Whirling your thumb around a stone carved into the shape of an iPod is calming, and watching a video loop of outrageous news headlines splash across a retro TV screen is not only about damning click-bait, but showing that we can laugh at it.

Consider the final sculpture in the exhibit, which is called Wormy. Visitors are invited to hug a 5-foot-8-high multicolored mound, don paper 3-D glasses and stick their heads into the hollow middle to watch a kaleidoscopic pattern.

It’s absurd, and as hipster as it gets, but you can’t help let loose a childlike giggle as the colors whirl.

What’s more soothing than that?