MSCHF Twists Lexus Vehicles into Impossible Sculptures

Brooklyn conceptual collective MSCHF has turned two electrified Lexus vehicles into objects that seem to belong to an animation frame rather than a showroom. Motomorphosis pairs the production models with sculptural doubles whose bodies loop, stretch, and spiral into physically impossible forms.

The project begins with the visual language of digital transformation. In animation, a smear frame distorts a moving object beyond realistic anatomy so that its motion reads more clearly. MSCHF translates that elastic logic into metal, glass, and automotive surfaces, freezing movement into two static sculptures the collective calls “Form Cars.”

Motion Without Movement

Circle Car reshapes an all-electric Lexus RZ 450e into a nose-to-tail loop, suggesting a vehicle driving endlessly around its own circumference. Familiar details remain legible, but the car’s function has been folded into a closed circuit.

Its companion, Twisted Car, subjects a Lexus RX 450h+ plug-in hybrid to dramatic longitudinal torsion. Body lines, windows, and surface features appear pulled along the spiral, as though the vehicle were caught midway through a digital modeling operation.

Shown beside the unaltered vehicles, the sculptures preserve enough recognizable information to keep the originals present in the mind. That friction between recognition and impossibility is the point: the automobile is engineered to move, while these objects are engineered to make viewers imagine movement.

Exhibition Details

Motomorphosis opens at Chelsea Industrial, 545 West 28th Street in New York, on Thursday, September 24, 2026, from 7 to 9 p.m. Public hours continue September 25 and 26 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free with RSVP through the project website.

Images courtesy of Lexus and MSCHF, via Lexus USA Newsroom. Source: Lexus USA Newsroom.