Memory moves. Place changes. We carry both.

The Places We Carry brings together three artists whose practices move through sound, landscape, and material memory. Verónica Ibargüengoitia, Murielle White, and Brandi Waller-Pace each ask how identity and belonging are shaped when people, traditions, and environments cross borders, experience rupture, or change over time.

Ibargüengoitia uses sculpture, installation, and materials gathered along migration routes to examine displacement, fragmentation, grief, and the collective reconstruction of identity. White gathers traces of coastlines, water, trees, architecture, and lived environments into landscapes that hover between the physical and psychological. Waller-Pace’s work centers Black musical lineages and the stories that dominant histories have too often obscured.

Together, these practices suggest that memory does not sit still. It travels through rhythm, gesture, language, objects, and the body. It erodes and accumulates. It can be interrupted, but it can also be recovered through listening, gathering, collaboration, and care.

Presented within Kinfolk House—a historic home transformed into a collaborative project space—the exhibition invites visitors to consider home as more than a fixed location. Home can be a story sounded again, a remembered terrain, an inherited practice, or a relationship remade. Belonging, in this space, is not simply found. It is created together.

Learn more here: The Places We Carry