This exhibition draws from the presence of Caracas’ blue-and-yellow macaws, whose flight across the city has become an unexpected symbol of adaptation and survival. Through a fragmented sky populated by birds, glitches, urban traces, and digital imagery, the installation inhabits the space between memory and displacement.

Moving between the physical and the virtual, the work reflects on the experience of forced Venezuelan migration and the unstable nature of belonging. Familiar landscapes appear, dissolve, and reassemble, echoing the ways identity is continuously negotiated across distance, absence, and change.

Neither nostalgic nor documentary, +58212 Sky is Buffering proposes a suspended territory where resilience emerges not from permanence, but from the capacity to adapt, persist, and imagine new forms of home.

As part of the installation, Rincón-Cañas developed a special collaboration with The House Project and MAD Arts to support people affected by the double earthquake that struck La Guaira, Venezuela. This resulted in a limited edition of 58 numbered prints, available for $58 each. Both the edition number and price reference +58, Venezuela’s international telephone country code, extending the conceptual connection at the heart of +58212: Sky is Buffering.

100% of the proceeds from the print sales will go to The House Project to support its relief efforts for communities affected by the double earthquake in La Guaira, Venezuela. Through this initiative, the exhibition extends beyond the gallery space, transforming its themes of memory, distance, and belonging into a concrete act of solidarity. 

This installation was made possible through the Broward County Cultural Division's Artist Support Grant.