THE UNKNOWN ZONE: MIAMI
November 2022-January 2023 | Arlo Wynwood Hotel | Miami Art Week
The Unknown Zone at Arlo Wynwood features three “mindbending” installations that bridge both physical and digital realms. The Unknown Zone experience at the Arlo explores the multiplicity of an instant, portrayed through playful displays of light, color, and life. The installation consists of three “zones”, each featuring Einbender’s fractal delights that capture the power of choice, which lead us to infinite realms of possibilities. Each installation is an ethereal gateway, designed to bounce its audience from physical to digital, and familiar to foreign, leading us to question: “What story do we manifest when we step into The Unknown Zone?”
Throughout life, we experience seminal moments of transition where one door closes and another opens. In the darkness of uncertainty, we are left stranded between possibilities revealed as choices - seemingly tiny but highly significant personal, physical, and spiritual moments. In that quantum-based moment of decision-making, a gratuitous act of human existence is unveiled, and a portal opens that leads us into the light. This "unknown zone" is materialized in Einbender's captivating door installation experience.
THE TERRACE
The largest installation resides in Arlo Wynwood’s 3rd-floor courtyard. This mixed-reality structure explores the notion of the multiverse: a theoretical reality that includes an infinite number of parallel universes. Animations of Einbender’s Virtual Reality dreamscapes appear through the windows of each door, creating captivating portals that pull the viewer into otherworldly dimensions.
THE LOBBY
Visitors entering the lobby will encounter Einbender’s signature large-scale door installation. This sculptural piece stands 10 ft high and surrounds one of Einbender’s fine art doors. Color-changing LEDs illuminate the entire structure from behind, creating a hypnotic effect both during the day and at night.
THE ELEVATORS
Einbender’s elevator mandala series, Where the End Begins, explores consciousness ‘beyond’ the confines of present-only time and mind. For this permanent installation, she transformed the elevators into heart-opening and mind-expanding portals that offer a genuine journey into enlightened states of being. Completely wrapped in Einbender’s designs, the elevator portal installation immerses guests into a liminal space where thoughts disappear and inner presence emerges as they are transported to their desired destination. Each mandala is derived from one of Brooke’s original oil paintings that she digitally collaged into kaleidoscopic forms.
“Brooke Einbender’s “Unknown Zone” exhibit is one of the most anticipated installations of Miami Art Week. This immersive experience explores new territories of combining physical and digital art using bold and engaging mediums to elevate the creative bar and push the limits of innovation and artistry… As Arlo Wynwood opens its doors on November 1, this collaboration is a very fitting parallel play on these theoretical and tangible doors, virtual reality escapes and immersive experiences to kick off the hotel’s first Miami Art Week.”
— said Jennifer Hiblum, General Manager of Arlo Wynwood.