MOWGLI, PETER & WOLF
installation with two videos and sound.
​main video projected on Wood panelling.
secondary video projected on tapestry.
2013
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The space is divided into two rooms. The first room used for the introduction, decorated as a Stereotypical Russian living room from her childhood memory.
The room is coated with cloth wallpaper on one of the walls there is a Tapestry of a European snowy landscape.
On the tapestry repeatedly projected the video "The Return of Mowgli from Poland" as an act of self-humor of who she herself is "Mowgli" the girl from the "jungles'' of Brazil, adopted into the bosom of Western culture.
​As Mowgli who is stuck between the animal world in which he grew up in and got educated by them, but he could never belong in their world, and the world of humans who see him as a foreigner, so to Shahar's Mowgli aspires to reach the "Polish house ", and integrate into society.
​The second room is covered with Wooden walls which is a reference to an eastern european guest room, and in the same time looks like a church.
On the walls are hanging lots of bird houses which are occupied by cactus plants. On the main wall projected the video "Mowgli, Peter and Wolf". The three represent Shahar's holy trinity, meaningful figures that accompany her throughout her life.
Thus sadness and humor, good and bad childhood and adolescent are all mixed together into one territory of confrontation.