ITS THROAT IS PARCHED WITH THIRST, BUT IT WOULD NOT ACCEPT A SINGLE DROP OF  WATER FROM ALIEN HANDS, 2025Two-channel 3D digital animation, 9:32 min, black and white, sound  
In 2020, a New York Times journalist suggested that Mehdi Ben Barka, a prominent Moroccan politician and co-founder of the Tricontinental, who disappeared in Paris in 1965, may have been buried beneath the Fondation Louis Vuitton, a contemporary art museum on the outskirts of Paris.Halloubi is drawn to the idea that a revolutionary from the Global South could be buried in a postmodern building emblematic of the glory of late capitalism. He began a video installation reconstructing in 3D the body of Ben Barka wandering through the museum like a ghost, haunting the era of neoliberal ascendancy in a time of genocide in Gaza.This work refers to Derrida’s Specters of Marx, where he argues that Marxism should not be seen as an obsolete dogma, but rather as a “specter” that continues to haunt our present and call for a justice yet to come.In this piece, Ben Barka endlessly questions his spectral identity, generated by technology. Even without memory, he remains animated by a moral and revolutionary drive, continuing to haunt the present.