During New York's Armory Week in September 2026, art collective MSCHF took two Lexus electrified vehicles and bent them into surreal, physically impossible sculptures — refusing to let precision-engineered machines remain what they were designed to be. The gesture belongs to a long tradition of art that asks what happens when we strip an object of its intended purpose and force it to mean something else entirely. In treating luxury as raw material, MSCHF posed a quiet but pointed question about the growing entanglement of commerce and culture, and who, ultimately, gets to define value.