The Places We CarryFeaturing Artist Verónica Ibargüengoitia · Murielle White · Brandi Waller-Pace
Memory Moves. Place changes. We carry both.
Memory Moves. Place changes. We carry both.
September 12th thru December 12th , 2026The 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.
Verónica Ibargüengoitia
Conceptual Art · Sculpture · Installation · Community Collaboration
Verónica Ibargüengoitia is a Mexican conceptual artist and educator based in Denton, Texas. Her interdisciplinary, research-based practice investigates how belonging and identity are negotiated and reconstructed through displacement, collaboration, and material memory.
Research and Recognition
Through installation and sculpture, Ibargüengoitia examines the grief associated with linguistic disconnection, family fragmentation, cultural displacement, topographical dislocation, physical disorientation, and shifts in social status while fostering collective experiences through community-based collaborations.
She holds a B.A. in Industrial Design, an M.A. in Philosophy and Humanities from Casa Lamm, and an MFA from the University of North Texas. Her work has been exhibited at the Holocaust Museum Houston, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, El Paso Museum of Art, Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez, Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, and Dallas Contemporary.
Her honors include the 2020 Artadia Houston Fellowship, the 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center, the Toulouse Graduate School Great Grant, and the Dallas Museum of Art’s Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant.
Supported by a Toulouse Graduate School Great Grant, Ibargüengoitia conducted research on trauma and migrant mental health with the Psychopathological and Psychosocial Care Service for Immigrants and Refugees at Hospital Sant Pere Claver in Barcelona. The Dallas Museum of Art’s Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant later supported continued research on identities fractured by displacement.
Murielle White
Painting · Drawing · Collage · Installation
Murielle White is a French artist born and raised in Paris. She earned her BFA in Studio Art, magna cum laude, from the University of South Florida in 2006, studied traditional Chinese ink landscape painting at the Nanjing Art Institute, and earned her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas in 2010.
White taught painting at UNT from 2008 to 2018 while developing an active studio practice. Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions at Dallas Contemporary, Cris Worley Fine Arts, McMurtrey Gallery, and Stella Jones Gallery. In 2016, she completed Oceans of Possibilities, a 4-by-92-foot mural commissioned for the UNT Student Union.
After living for five years in Naples and later in Paris and Marseille, White returned to Dallas in 2025. Immersion in the Mediterranean environment shifted landscapes in her work from something observed toward an internal terrain shaped by memory, movement, erosion, displacement, and belonging. Her recent practice combines painting, drawing, collage, raw and irregularly shaped canvas, thread, and installation.
Musician · Educator · Cultural Advocate
Brandi Waller-Pace (they/she) is a Fort Worth-based musician, educator, and cultural advocate whose work is driven by centering the narratives of oppressed peoples and nurturing equity in school and community arts spaces. They are the Founder and Executive Director of Decolonizing the Music Room, under which they created and run the Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival.
Raised in Atlanta, Waller-Pace earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Jazz Studies from Howard University. After relocating to Fort Worth, they taught public school music, served as an artist-in-residence at Arts Fifth Avenue, mentored teachers, and wrote curriculum for Fort Worth ISD. In 2019 and 2020, they contributed to the advisory team that helped formulate standards for Texas’ first state-approved African American Studies course.