Shalom imagines a world shored up in information. Accessible in varying fidelities. He draws lines between physical and digital dimensions. Amorphous and cropped. An uncertain narrative of hybridity attempting to resuscitate pseudo insomniac histories. Ambiguously marked by presence and absence. Shalom is a collection of lies that disappear in the light. A lossy body. A class of encoding using inexact approximations that partially discard data.


Also known as Nkululeko. Shalom is a silo, a storage facility where-in grains like ideology, love, fidelity, trust, hope, greed, and ambition can be stored, distributed, or contained. He is a collection of shadows, carved into linoleum flooring. He is a restless national, an (un)reliable narrator and a non-linear entanglement of seemingly disparate stories. He is an illusionary strategy that considers proximity, distance and their effect on understanding and comprehension. Shalom is a ratio of enunciation.


Shalom Mushwana is lens-based artist using content and information of varying fidelities to figuratively sojourn through contemporary and historical landscapes. Shalom considers (un)reliable historical narratives and the imagistic manifestations there-of as the raw materials that he draws upon in a process of contemporary myth making. Shalom has been part of group shows locally and internationally and obtained his bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Johannesburg (2021).