Nurul Fasihah 
Binte Sarjono


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Nurul Fasihah Sarjono (b. 2004) is a Singaporean ceramic sculptor whose practice explores existentialism through themes of identity, displacement, and care. Working primarily with clay, she approaches art-making as a form of contemporary archaeology—handling, collecting, and recontextualising materials to examine memory, belonging, and the traces left behind in everyday, in-between spaces. Her work emphasises materiality, touch, and process, positioning clay as both fragile and enduring. 

Fasihah has participated in exhibitions and art events including the Independent Archive LELONG LELONG Fundraiser (2022), NAFA x SBS Transit’s 20th Anniversary Railway Operations Artwork (2023), Flagship Genius Exhibition, Shoebox Sculpture Biennale, and Re:Count-1 Live Project Showcase (2023). She currently works as a studio assistant to renowned ceramicist Delia Prvacki, contributing to projects including Continuity, Persistence, Line at the NUS Museum.My practice is rooted in the materiality of clay and its ability to hold memory, touch, and transformation. In its paradox of fragility and permanence, clay becomes both medium and metaphor through which I explore questions of identity and existence. I am drawn to the overlooked gestures of making—kneading, pressing, breaking, and mending—and how these acts mirror cycles of comfort, loss, and renewal. Tactility functions as an emotional language, connecting the artist, material, and viewer.

Through sculpture and installation, I approach my work as a form of contemporary archaeology. Clay and found fragments are treated as artefacts that carry traces of the body and time. My recent projects involve walking, collecting, and re-situating objects from both distant and familiar landscapes, questioning how displacement, belonging, and memory are negotiated within everyday, managed environments.



Title: Unfamiliar Comforts, Familiar Ground: On Temporary Care
Year: 2026
Medium: Found objects, table, stool, wooden tray, lamp, cotton gloves, paper forms, pencils, clipboard
Statement:

Fasihah’s research explores displacement as an emotional and spatial condition shaped through movement, moments of disruption, and noticing, rather than fixed boundaries. Her practice grows from repeated walks through maintained, in-between urban spaces, where she reflects on the ethics of taking and holding overlooked objects. Recent work introduces a set of three reflective questions that move through before, during, and after an encounter, drawing attention to self-awareness, responsibility, and leaving. Through this, her research shifts toward temporary care, examining how hesitation, partial responsibility, and restraint can function as ethical positions. Uncertainty, absence, and incompleteness are treated as active conditions within her practice.