To Leave: Deus ex Machina ​(2022)
A figure that is based on the dichotomic idea of balancing gnostic ideals and contemporary state of hyperrealism.

Ke Datanganku Dari Laut ke Tanahmu (My Arrival from the Sea to your Land) (2019)
Anchored along the banks of Kallang Riverside Park, the installation is an ode to the vessels that once plied this river, en route to or from the larger Straits of Singapore, as well as the hopes and dreams of the people that these vessels once contained. Inspired by a jong, a traditional Malay ship, the materiality of the installation consists of mild steel (exterior) and stainless steel mirrored finish (interior) as metaphors for the reflective ends of our cultural and historical identity, fading in and out of the maritime landscape, like so many individuals that once passed through this shoreline.

Writings on the Horizon (2019)
​Writings on the Horizon, intends to communicate with the conception of an idea that are then imprinted onto a physical surface of a mind as a metaphor for the marriage between being qua being. It is also an attempt to capture the spilt moment of awaking to the rising of a ‘sun’ and into a new. The photographic documentations; accompanied by spontaneous poetic phrases of a gathering, expresses the idea of one’s perspective, peering towards the horizon. Thus the horizon is a symbolic personification for the conclusion of Ramadan (scorched or burning) and into Shawwal (to lift or to carry).

Before Breath: Pneuma In Euclidean’s Space (2020)
Before Breath: Pneuma In Euclidean’s Space is an attempt to physicalise the idea of the appearance of one’s soul prior to consciousness and into being. This has led the artist to create a visual discourse through sculptural means of one’s initial beginning to one’s possible ending, and the effort of being purposeful in between (thoughtful spirituality phase)  albeit with the intention of being inconclusive. 

Here, the physicalisation of the transition of the soul and into being are represented through the means of Geometry (cuboid-shaped structure), a universal rule that is concerned with objective realities such as shapes, lines, forms and the relative position of figures; which are then placed on top of four stones at each corners of the cuboid, a metaphor for an anchor of one’s soul into being/body. 

​The installation could be read as both a representation for the beginning of consciousness and thrown into the world or as our consciousness is leaving and progressing into another phase.

To Leave: Ad Astra Per Aspera I and II (2019)
I had the opportunity to be doing my first lithography residency with Pulp Editions www.pulpeditions.com/, headed by printmaking artist, Shi Tong from May to June of 2018.

Wind Though: The Physicality of Thought (2018)
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The window invites light and cast shadows onto both the mental and physical space of ours; and serves as a metaphor for man's quest for greater space. Today within our new communications culture, we find multidimensional window arrangements - interfaces - that will permit man to navigate the non-Euclidean realms of postmodern cyberspace. With this installation, the artist is paying homage to the intangibility of our thoughts and imaginations by being inspired through the use of three-dimensional objects as metaphors for a conception.

In This Space I Will Find You (2018) 

In This Space I Will Find You is an outdoor public art installation that draws inspiration from the geometric forms of Singapore’s housing estates. Consisting of mirrored columns that surround a similarly reflective cube-shaped pavilion, the installation has the paradoxical appearance of seeming both monumental yet light and insubstantial: present, yet almost dissolving into its environment. Its fort-like circular layout suggests a psychological stronghold, and acts as an instrument of expression that calls to mind the various prisms through which we view others and ourselves.

The passage of time and comings and goings of people make each visit to this artwork a unique experience. Having seen the gradual development of Woodlands while growing up here, artist Nhawfal Juma’at wants to playfully remind us that home itself is a work in progress that constantly changes, with improvements and corrections made over time.
​- Susanna Tan
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Romantic Conceptualism: How Time is Being Spent and Romantic Conceptualism: Time Being Spent (2018)
How Time is Being Spent was inspired by the constant regrets for the wrongful decisions made; that anticipation is a foresight hard to grasp. The idea is presented through printed text that advertises the phrase "Tomorrow We Should Have Discuss What To Do For Yesterday".

​Time Being Spent was presented through a performative installation where the artist expressed ideas of Transcendence through the displacement of four rocks, a circle drawn by coloured pigment, a book on Structuralism and Post-Structuralism for Dummies and ending of with the performative act of a prayer and the acquiring of knowledge through reading.