Nhawfal Juma’at is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, text, sound, and spatial expression. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts Singapore and was awarded the NAC–UAS Arts Scholarship in 2024. Drawing from phenomenology, Islamic hermeneutics, and post-structuralist thought, his work examines how meaning is formed, unsettled, and experienced through material, space, and the body. Alongside his artistic pursuits, Nhawfal teaches studio-based modules as an adjunct lecturer in painting, drawing, ceramics and sculpture at NAFA.

Chiaro Al-Aletheia: To Me, You Are Near is intended as a looped headphone-based listening encounter and as a companion work to Chiaro Al-Aletheia: The Gathering. The work features a recording of his late father’s birthday speech, the artist’s own recited voice, and a self-composed musical score. Through layered voices across three generations—father, self, and child—the work becomes a listening field where inheritance is not merely represented as lineage, but encountered as resonance, return, and nearness. The looped structure keeps memory active, circling between presence and absence, while the headphone format invites the listener into an intimate encounter with care, transmission, and the fragile continuity of Being. As a companion to the cotton twine installation, the audio work extends the spatial language, allowing what is visually held in tension to be heard as an echo.