Artist and architect Lauren Henkin has created a series of sculptures to fill "unintended" installation spaces in the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio designed by late architect Zaha Hadid.

Cincinnati's CAC will unveil Props, an exhibition of eight "site-responsive" sculptures by artist and architect Lauren Henkin, to the public on 22 November 2019.
Henkin created her debut sculpture collection to be an artistic "interrogation" of stylistic elements that define the museum's structure, which was completed by Hadid in 2003, marking her first project in the US and the first-ever major museum designed by a woman.

The CAC's curator, Steven Matijcio, commissioned Henkin to fill 95 cubic metres of unexpected install locations in the building with works inspired by the unused spaces. "We contemplated how her provisional sculptural interventions could activate in the CAC's Zaha Hadid building, which was designed to disorient audiences and open them up to revised forms of navigation through museum space" Matijcio told Dezeen.

The "props" on show are intended to boost viewers' consideration of Hadid's own gestural, formal, and functional intentions.
Henkin aims to achieve this by using construction materials, like lumber, PVC pipes and wires ? many coming from the utility closets around the museum ? and by placing the sculptures outside the standard exhibition spaces.
"I wanted to break the formality of those marks...