We’ve Been Trying to Reach You

We’ve Been Trying To Reach You is a two-week-only textile exhibition exploring memory, dreams, transformation, and longing. Artists Lovisa Axén and Carter Shocket live continents apart and both create work born from longing– trying to reach something, or someone, and hold onto it. Beyond their own missed calls to each other, they’re trying to reach memories, fleeting feelings, and people not of this time. Axén’s tapestries string together thousands of hand dyed shirt buttons to conjure the feeling of a memory. Through pixelation and subtle distortions, her works evoke the spaces between clarity and loss, where what is absent becomes as present as what remains. Shocket’s woven sculptures attempt to connect himself to trans community and ancestry, seemingly lost across time and space. His woven paper airplane installation attempts to pass notes through time, crashing into the hard walls of actuality. For two weeks, Eleventh Hour Art is transformed by a transient installation of contemporary textile work that shimmers with the changing light. As you move through the exhibition, fall into the deepest dreams and desires of both artists. You might just hear a whisper: We’re trying to reach you. This exhibition has been made possible with support from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee Lovisa Axén (b. 1996, Götlunda) is an artist based in Malmö, Sweden. Working primarily with textiles, she explores the fragility of memory—how it blurs, fractures, and reshapes over time. Through pixelation and subtle distortions, her works evoke the spaces between clarity and loss, where what is absent becomes as present as what remains. In her practice, everyday materials like shirt buttons are transformed into carriers of intimacy and recognition, inviting viewers into a quiet, searching encounter. Without demanding technical decoding, her pieces instead offer an emotional resonance—fragments that ask to be pieced together, but never fully resolved. Carter Shocket (b. 1995, North Carolina) is a trans and queer interdisciplinary artist from North Carolina living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work explores queer theory and trans experience through woven sculpture, tapestry, and installation. He’s interested in the otherwordly reality that transness can usher in— something he calls the trans supernatural. Shocket’s woven sculptures attempt to connect himself to trans community and ancestry, seemingly lost across time and space. His woven installations play with time, pass notes through time itself, and crash into hard walls of actuality en route.

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