Its throat is parched with thirst, but it would not accept a single drop of water from alien hands
De Pont Museum•Sep 13, 2025 — Mar 01, 2026
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From 13 September 2025, De Pont Museum in Tilburg will present a double première by Moroccan-Belgian artist Hamza Halloubi (1982). In addition to Halloubi’s first feature film Vizor (2024), which deals with insurmountable dilemmas in life and art, his most recent group of works – centred on the fate of Mehdi Ben Barka (1920-1965) – will be displayed as well. Through a poignant and poetic installation, Halloubi explores the role of art in a late-stage capitalist society.
Halloubi was inspired by the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka (1920-1965), a prominent Moroccan politician who was last seen in Paris in 1965. Ben Barka was a revolutionary who openly denounced the monarchy, advocated for a democratic and anti-colonial Moroccan state and was a major driving force behind the Tricontinental Conference, an international gathering of liberation movements from Africa, Asia and Latin America. During a 2020 radio interview, the Israeli investigative j…
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Its throat is parched with thirst, but it would not accept a single drop of water from alien hands
De Pont Museum•Sep 13, 2025 — Mar 01, 2026
Press Release
From 13 September 2025, De Pont Museum in Tilburg will present a double première by Moroccan-Belgian artist Hamza Halloubi (1982). In addition to Halloubi’s first feature film Vizor (2024), which deals with insurmountable dilemmas in life and art, his most recent group of works – centred on the fate of Mehdi Ben Barka (1920-1965) – will be displayed as well. Through a poignant and poetic installation, Halloubi explores the role of art in a late-stage capitalist society.
Halloubi was inspired by the mystery surrounding the disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka (1920-1965), a prominent Moroccan politician who was last seen in Paris in 1965. Ben Barka was a revolutionary who openly denounced the monarchy, advocated for a democratic and anti-colonial Moroccan state and was a major driving force behind the Tricontinental Conference, an international gathering of liberation movements from Africa, Asia and Latin America. During a 2020 radio interview, the Israeli investigative j…
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