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H0PE is a mural created by artist Neve in February 2023 in Djebel Jelloud, Tunis, for the IndaHood festival, under the patronage of the Tunisian Ministry of Culture.
"H0PE" is a large-scale outdoor mural painted in February 2023 in Tunis, for the Festival "in the Hood", under the patronage of the Tunisian Ministry of Culture and for the Fondazione Chukri Belahid and Hayfa Takouti. The work marks a technical turning point in Neve's practice: for the first time he painted without spray, using a roller and brush. Arriving in Tunisia without spray equipment, he adapted — and discovered a new relationship with the wall and with paint. "H0PE" was executed entirely in black and white. The subject is a crumbling classical figure — a marble bust or statue of a woman, rendered in the grey-white palette of carved stone, whose surface is fractured by deep cracks. Through those cracks, gold: the same kintsugi principle that appears in "Comedìa" (Seregno, 2021), the Japanese art of repairing broken objects with gold lacquer, transforming fracture into luminosity. Here, however, the crumbling is more extreme — fragments of the figure have broken away and fall, the disintegration of form as both subject and structure. The title "HOP" names the gesture: a leap, a jump, the body mid-air between two states. The figure's face — marble-pale, eyes closed, hair blowing — carries a Baroque stillness that contrasts with the violence of the fracturing below. The gold cracks are not repair; they are what remains visible when centuries of accumulation finally give way. The piece was painted on the exterior wall of a building in an industrial district of Tunis, the ventilation grilles of the building incorporated into the composition. The building is built with the industrial materials of the district around it — concrete, metal — and the mural's grey and white tones absorb the colour of the sky, shifting throughout the day.
