No Peace is the title of a drawing
installation made by Israeli born artist Ram Samocha. As an
immigrant, Samocha focuses on the issues of personal and
global transformation and combines drawing with video,
animation, and performance in the hope of gaining a more
communicative interaction with the viewer. The work does
not illustrate a political narrative but reflect on recent
global issues by using the personal language of art. The
drawings make use of the vocabulary of abstraction while
presenting the physical process of a repetitive line-based
action. Samocha is inspired by the intuitive language of
children's drawings which is reflected in the colourful
images of his large scale works done on unstretched canvas.
The joyful and psychedelic feel of his images are
interrupted by troubled titles such as Sirens,
Criss-CrossFire, Sand Clock, Concertina Wire, and Green
Cease-Fire. In this book Samocha talks about the emotional
restlessness of an immigrant artist who lives in a peaceful
place but at the same time is tormented by the ongoing war
in his homeland.