We´Ve Been Trying To Reach You

Duo Exhibition with Lovisa Axén and Carter Schocket at
Elevent Hour Art, Brooklyn, NY (USA). October 17 – October 30, 2025. 

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 temporality.

For two weeks, Eleventh Hour Art will be 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.}

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^{Lovisa Axén, En rörelse i ögonvrån (A movement in the corner of the eye), 2025, 22x22cm, 1 of 3. 400 shirt buttons hand-dyed in 17 different colors, silk mohair yarn.  A portrait of Bella Goth<3}

^{Lovisa Axén, Ambitiöst Misslyckande (Ambitious Failure), 2025, 200x55cm, 1908 hand-dyed shirt buttons, silk mohair yarn.}

^{Carter Shocket, Attempts at Time Travel, installation view, 2025, paper-yarn, party streamers, thread, & nails.}

<sup>Lovisa Axén, when I found her All drowned in grey, 2024, 300cm (with fringes) x 110cm, 9025 hand-dyed shirt buttons, silk mohair yarn, soil.




Carter Shocket, Together / Apart, 2025, paper yarn, ink, plastic thread, & nails. 50 × 36 × 3 in.</sup>

^{Carter Shocket, I've Been Trying to Reach You, 2025, paper yarn, ink, & thread. Dimensions variable.}

^{Lovisa Axén, STEEL SOLID, 2023, 40x40cm, Recycled Swedish tin.
Lovisa Axén, I Found My Love On The Internet, 2023, 30x50c, Recycled Swedish tin}

More pictures will be added soon.