PADA Studios Gallery, 2026

Curated by Paula Ferreira, the group exhibition is a culmination of a two-month residency in Barreiro, Portugal on May 30th, 2026.

It leads you to reflect on circumstances that bring people together and, at times, bring about encounters. "What are the spaces where the negotiation between our expressions of individual freedoms and the demands of our social personas becomes more fluid, less restrictive? What affections are necessary for the creation of these very spaces? And, consequently, how might they be built? I recognise in these questions a path towards an ongoing search, and a learning process regarding artistic practice as a place of coexistence. Moving through the space, one encounters the delicate firmness of Medha Khosla’s manual gesture, which weaves 'Time Horizon' from the memory imbued in the discarded materials with which she works. In the artist’s diptych, the
interweaving of lines and materials gives rise to two chromatic planes, whose pictorial power is reflected in the small coloured fields that fill the wooden support."

Hand woven with a needle, using diverse industrial and coastal waste materials around PADA such as discarded plastic shipping bags, jute, cables and coastal materials like fishing rope from Goa, the woven panels seek to reveal a history of movement and resilience. The works were developed in studios that formerly operated as a jute factory within the old Companhia Union Fabril (CUF) Industrial Park in Barreiro, Portugal. The primary material being jute, a fiber historically cultivated in Bengal and imported to Portugal via colonial trade routes through Goa - the region where Khosla is based, still holds physical, spatial and cultural traces of its historical trajectory. By weaving jute with contemporary industrial and coastal waste, the works intend to hold these historical tensions in suspension - neither resolved nor erased, but made legible as form.

Through experimental engagement with discarded materials, the weavings resist stasis. Forms emerge, recede and return, keeping the works active and responsive to their immediate environment. This material instability is intentional. As jute warps against cables and plastic slips against fiber, the panels uncover obscured narratives of colonial circulation, labour and ecological extraction embedded within the grid. In doing so, 'Time Horizon' proposes new hybrid material systems - not as speculative design, but as urgent, tactile responses to the pressing need for repair and reuse in the context of climate change mitigation. 

Time Horizon (2026)
Discarded jute fiber, plastic cables, deconstructed fishing rope, industrial plastic waste, plastic bag strips, found packing material handwoven around canvas.
W 14 " x H 18" x D 1"