SPRING/BREAK Art Fair Launches BKLYN IMMERSIVE Exhibition in Downtown Brooklyn

SPRING/BREAK BKLYN IMMERSIVE ran from May 6-14, 2017, with free admission at 300 Flatbush Avenue Extension in downtown Brooklyn. This marked a departure from the fair's typical Armory Week schedule, expanding both temporally and geographically into a ground-floor arts space within the City Point BKLYN development. Rather than presenting numerous small rooms, this iteration featured a curated selection of large-scale immersive installations. Takashi Horisaki's Social Dress New Orleans – 10 Years After created an architectural memorial to Hurricane Katrina's destruction through latex casts taken from a flood-damaged building. These rubber molds, suspended from the ceiling according to the original floor plan, preserved layers of paint, plaster, lathe, and even a fish skeleton embedded in a wall. The Material Girl collective presented Material World, exploring intersections between sculpture and digital media through thirteen works referencing Vaporwave aesthetics. Claire Lachow's ludditemeet.space video, displayed on a vintage CRT monitor, examined digital plasticity and online identity transformation using 3D-rendered bodies adorned with bank slogans. Devra Freelander's Venusian Alpenglow featured a polystyrene and epoxy resin puddle painted with fluorescent enamel that shifted from yellow to red-orange, creating colors typically found only in digital displays. The exhibition focused on immersive experiences rather than traditional art fair presentations.