Sharashka takes its name from the secret research facilities operated within the Soviet Gulag system, where imprisoned scientists and engineers were forced to work for the state. The project uses this history as a lens through which to examine contemporary Israeli society and the political structures that shape it.

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The project developed through research in Israel and Russia, including a visit to Perm-36, a former Soviet labor camp, where Meir Tati produced a series of video performances in 2014. Alongside these actions, he conducted interviews and collected documentary material, gradually building an archive that connects Soviet history, migration, ideology, and the political formation of Israeli society.

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​Sharashka was presented at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in 2015 as part of the exhibition Workplace, curated by Revital Ben-Asher Peretz. The installation combined archival material, objects, drawings, video, live performance, and interviews within an environment that evoked a research laboratory and a detention space. Rather than treating history as a closed narrative, the project asks how political systems, memories, and ideologies migrate across places and generations.