Goa Open Arts Festival, 2026

Goa Open Arts presents 'Linear Fragments', a series of 12 handwoven works by Medha Khosla in the group exhibition 'Threads Through Time: Textile Art from Goa' at the Goa Open Arts Festival from Feb 20th - 25th, 2026. Highlighting textile art from the region, this exhibition moves between archival histories and contemporary experimentation, revisiting Goa's lesser know textile traditions and viewing fiber as a sculptural and conceptual medium.

Through the 'Linear Fragments' series of works, Khosla seeks to question the objectification of waste materials, while investigating the intersection of materiality and the act of hand weaving – revealing a dynamic interplay between the two.

Discarded plastic bags cut into strips, coastal fishing ropes and nets, raffia as well as jute yarns extracted from jute sacks found in Goa are the primary elements of the textile works - each one laboriously unspooled, washed and rewoven with hand, adding texture, dimension and visual language to each of the works.
The exploration and examination of the discarded materials was the starting point in understanding their ability to transform beyond the ‘ordinary’ or ‘mundane’ and reconfiguring the waste into witness. Each panel is an assemblage of experimental weaving techniques and the power of deconstructed materials that form the warp and weft of each of the works. Using a simple needle, the untangled and frayed materials are transformed beyond their present reality as they interweave with each other into architectures of entanglement.

The Linear Fragments series of works reimagines discarded matter into intricate weaves inviting viewers to examine their personal interactions with materials and resources that are prevalent in our daily lives.

Linear Fragments (2025)
Discarded fishing rope, plastic bag strips, jute and nylon yarns extracted from discarded sacks handwoven around cotton canvas and handmade wooden frame looms.
H 8" x W 10" x D 1.5" (01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09)
H 29.75" x W 19.75" x D 2" (10, 11, 12)