Kinfolk House will present The Places We Carry, a collaborative exhibition led by Mexican conceptual artist Verónica Ibargüengoitia, with multidisciplinary artist Murielle White and Fort Worth musician, educator, and cultural advocate Brandi Waller-Pace. On view Sep 12, 2026 through Dec 12, 2026, the project explores how people carry memory, culture, and place through movement, rupture, and change.

Across sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, collage, and sound, the artists approach belonging as something continually made and remade. Ibargüengoitia examines identities fractured by displacement and reconstructed through material memory, migration routes, and collective experience. White transforms landscape into an internal terrain shaped by memory, erosion, and movement across cultures. Waller-Pace centers the Black histories and living traditions at the roots of American music.

Together, their practices invite visitors to consider what remains when familiar ground shifts: a melody passed forward, a remembered landscape, a gathered material, a language partially lost, or a story restored through community. The exhibition resists a single definition of home. Instead, it traces belonging as an active practice—rooted in remembrance, relation, and the creative work of making place again.

Featured Artists

Verónica Ibargüengoitia is a Mexican conceptual artist and educator based in Denton, Texas. Through installation and sculpture, her interdisciplinary, research-based practice investigates how belonging and identity are negotiated through linguistic disconnection, family fragmentation, cultural displacement, topographical dislocation, and shifts in social status. Her recent work gathers materials along migration routes spanning the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and the Mediterranean corridor.

Murielle White is a French artist whose practice brings together painting, drawing, collage, raw canvas, thread, and installation. Shaped by a life lived across Paris, China, North Texas, Naples, and Marseille, White approaches landscape not as a fixed view but as an internal terrain. Water, botanical forms, architectural fragments, and expanses of unpainted canvas gather into layered spaces where memory, place, and experience converge.

Brandi Waller-Pace is a Fort Worth-based musician, educator, and cultural advocate whose work centers the narratives of oppressed peoples and advances equity in school and community arts spaces. Founder and Executive Director of Decolonizing the Music Room, Waller-Pace also created and leads the Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival. A singer and multi-instrumentalist, their music moves among jazz, roots music, Americana, and neo-soul while affirming the centrality of Blackness in American roots traditions.