Noel Caban 

I am a Brooklyn-born interdisciplinary artist focused on borders—who creates them, who crosses them, and who is made to live within them. My work examines how political and economic forces shape cities, often producing displacement and fractured senses of belonging.

 

I build geometric sculptures and abstractions from found construction materials, working with what already exists rather than an idealized form. These materials carry their own limits, histories, and signs of use. Cut, layered, and left intentionally incomplete, the forms hold both constraint and resilience. In this way, the city becomes more than a backdrop—it emerges as a system that leaves visible, lasting marks on the people who move through it.