'Stress (Desplazados)' consists of thousands of bronze-cast teeth, originally sourced from Cuban clinics and medical schools, sandwiched between two blocks of concrete.

Capote approaches his art making as a kind of therapeutic process, a way of exploring conflicts plaguing human beings, both individually and collectively. He likes to start with words describing emotional states, which he collects obsessively in notebooks. Capote then determines the best way of representing these emotionally charged states, often through surreal juxtapositions. For 'Stress (Desplazados)', his own experience as a lifelong tooth grinder led him to collect thousands of teeth from fellow Cubans by posting advertisements at clinics and medical schools. He cast all the real teeth, including his own wisdom teeth, in bronze and spread them out in layers, which he set between two blocks of concrete stacked in a modernist-style monolith.

“It’s this material metaphor for the difficulty of speaking out against some improbable pressure,” said Jen Mergel, senior curator of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “whether frustration with the limits of expression in a governmental structure or just being unable to speak about a frustration with any personal situation. Using very concise metaphors, Yoan gets to bigger issues of the individual in connection to the social or the civic in really direct ways.”