Gui

A face drawn in colour on black — light coaxed from darkness with coloured pencil.

Gui is a studio work by artist Neve, coloured pencils on black cardboard, created in 2014.

"Gui" is a colored pencil drawing on black cardboard from 2014. Two faces are pressed together in extreme close-up — skin against skin, features compressed, a hand gripping from the side. The image sits at the threshold between tenderness and pressure, between holding and being held. The work is rooted in the concept of the "ghost points" (punti fantasma) — nodes in the body identified by Wu shamans as sites where dark energy accumulates and must be released. The Wu shamanic tradition, one of the oldest in Chinese culture, understands the body as a field of forces in constant tension: points that charge, points that discharge, passages between what is carried and what can be let go. "Gui" depicts that moment — not the wound and not the healing, but the instant of contact between the two: the pressure point, the hand that knows where to press.