Homeostasis (home)(stay)

Saturday August 16th to Sunday August 24th, 2025

Opening Reception Saturday August 16th 5-9pm

Keystone Gallery presents Homeostasis (home) (stay), a four person exhibition curated by Hope Okere and featuring work by Fawlene Aziza, Iman Djouini, Shana Moulton, and Hope Okere. The artwork spans across multiple disciplines, from sculpture and video installation to print making and fiber art.

Homeostasis is a balanced state of being, in which all elements, chemicals, and nutrients within our bodies are in balance and in harmony. In homeostasis, healing can begin. The themes present in the exhibition are weaving, water, migration, identity mapping, spirituality and healing. Some of the works also embody diaspora and hybridity. Through the representation of earth and water, there is grounding and healing. Water is an intuitive source for re-sourcing our life force energy. There is vulnerability and strength to the exhibition. Internal feminine intuition guides the creation of the weavings, prints, and video art. The artists use that intuitive liminal space to explore and create their ideas. The book by Jennifer Higgie entitled, The Other Side, A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World had an influence in conceptualizing and curating the exhibition.

“While the individual work of each artist is unique, the women involved in Spiritualism shared the same goal: to use art as a conduit to communicate with, and to learn from, other dimensions - to give voice to their lives and the lives of others” (Higgie 2024, 49)

The artwork may be viewed as internal examinations, but the artists are also reflecting out and relating our experiences to the world at large. At a time when our collective community is out of balance and suffering, can we work toward homeostasis? Let us dissolve borders with water and seek conditions for healing. We ask that immigrants be allowed to stay in their homes, the homes they have made here in this country.

“I’m interested in how descendants of great migrations both from within and beyond U.S. borders impact our modern ecological culture—I am often reflecting on the somatic responses that arise when navigating a country and land not native to me in nature, but still home. I think about those who are historically native but are faced with the challenges of belonging through various genocides and oppressive systems. How do you continue to ground and remain committed to your own identity, culture, and belonging on unstable ground? The vulnerability of being on a land that can uproot us anytime. “– Fawlene Aziza

About the Artists:

Fawlene Aziza (b. 1994, Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice invites viewers into her exploration of belonging within culture, identity, and movement. Each component is often woven into a somatic, imaginative context expressed through painting, photography, and video. Aziza earned her B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Miami in 2018 and her Masters of Fine Art from Otis College of Art and Design in 2024. www.fawleneAziza.com / @fawlene

Iman Djouini b. Algiers, Algeria, is an artist and educator who works primarily in Print Media, Placemaking, and Typography.  Her research-based practice explores gender and postcolonial spatial relations. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and featured within multiple civic public art projects. She currently serves as the director of Social Print Lab, a print media civic-design studio based between Baltimore City and Los Angeles. https://imandjouini.com / @iman_djouini

Shana Moulton is a California-born-and-based artist who works in video, performance, and installation. In 2002, Moulton began the video series Whispering Pines, in which she performs as Cynthia, an alter-ego searching for purpose and fulfillment through home decor, self-help paraphernalia, and cosmetic rituals. Moulton has had solo exhibitions at international institutions including Palais De Tokyo, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kunsthaus Glarus, Art in General, and MoMA. Her single-channel videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix and she is a featured artist on Art21: New York Close Up. @shanamoulton

Hope Ngozi Okere is a Nigerian American interdisciplinary artist, based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work exists at the intersection of sculpture, fiber, and movement. Informing her art praxis are theories of Afro-Futurism, neo-conceptualism, and African and modern dance. She also explores dualities, distortions, translations, and hybridity. She holds an MFA from the University of California Santa Barbara and a BFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC. Hope has attended workshops at Haystack School of Craft, Yucca Valley Material lab, The Textile Art Center, Pioneer Works, and a residency at Texere in Oaxaca, ME. https://www.hopeokere.com / @hopengozistudio