For MOTOMORPHOSIS, the Brooklyn art collective transforms two Lexus electrified vehicles into full-scale works that look as though they escaped from a 3D rendering.
What happens when the tools of digital design are applied to an automobile — literally? Lexus and Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF have an answer.
For MOTOMORPHOSIS, a new exhibition presented during New York’s Armory Week, MSCHF has transformed two production Lexus electrified vehicles into extraordinary sculptural doubles. Instead of designing futuristic concept cars, the collective bends, stretches and twists familiar automotive forms until they appear almost impossible.
The project begins with the Lexus RZ 450e and Lexus RX 450h+. Each production vehicle is displayed alongside MSCHF’s radically altered interpretation.
THE LEXUS THAT BECAME A CIRCLE
The RZ 450e becomes Circle Car, an extraordinary loop in which the vehicle appears to curve continuously from nose to tail.
It is immediately recognizable as a Lexus, yet its familiar proportions have been pushed into something closer to sculpture than transportation.
The transformation borrows from the visual language of digital animation. In a computer-generated world, an object can be stretched, bent, or distorted with relatively little concern for the physical limitations of the material itself. MSCHF brings that same logic into the real world.
THEN MSCHF TWISTED THE RX
The second sculpture starts with the Lexus RX 450h+.
For Twisted Car, MSCHF subjects the vehicle’s form to dramatic longitudinal torsion, creating a body that seems to spiral around itself.
Windows, body panels and the vehicle’s silhouette appear to follow the distortion, producing something that looks more like a frozen animation frame than a conventional automobile. That tension is central to MOTOMORPHOSIS.
MSCHF describes the works as “Form Cars” rather than concept cars. Where a traditional concept car often explores what an automobile could become through new technology or functionality, these pieces explore the automobile purely as a physical form.
WHEN DIGITAL DISTORTION BECOMES PHYSICAL
The sculptures draw from the “squash and stretch” techniques associated with animation, where objects temporarily deform to communicate speed and movement.
Here, that temporary distortion has been made permanent.
The result is particularly striking when the altered sculptures are positioned beside the production vehicles that inspired them. One is engineered to move. The other remains completely stationary while visually communicating movement.
That contradiction makes MOTOMORPHOSIS more than an automotive collaboration.
It becomes an experiment in what happens when industrial design, contemporary art and digital visual culture collide.
SEE MOTOMORPHOSIS IN NEW YORK
MOTOMORPHOSIS is being presented at Chelsea Industrial, 545 West 28th Street in New York City, during Armory Week.
The exhibition is open to the public September 25–26, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with free admission by RSVP.
For Lexus, it is an unconventional way of positioning electrification beyond specifications and engineering.
For MSCHF, it is something perhaps even more interesting: taking an object almost everyone understands — the automobile — and asking how far its form can be pushed before it becomes something else entirely.