Caldo Worldwide is pleased to present Suit Play by Vincent Moulinet, featuring his real-time installation Daddy loves you too. (2026), on view at Basel Social Club 2026 and online at Caldo Worldwide.

A real-time simulation installation — whatever you do, whether you watch, monitor, wait, speak, act, or stomp, it doesn't matter to patriarchy (and by extension capitalism). It feeds it.

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From:
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Sent: 2/6/2026 5:20:39 PM
To: <█████████>
Subject:
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My darling,

I hope you’re doing well; I hope you’re doing better.

I received your message, but I didn’t know how to reply. From my silence, you should have guessed that I don’t agree with you at all. But in the end, it doesn’t matter what I believe because I have no choice but to accept your decision, and that is the worst torture possible.

Leave if you want, leave right now, do whatever you want and whatever you need, but please, never forget to feel ashamed. I see right through your little game. I comprehend everything you do; I know everything you desire. We are not that different. And since you’re accusing me, here’s what I have to say in response.

First of all, you’re lying. Your accusation is hypocritical. Yes, I dominated you, yes, it’s creepy, disgusting, but that’s exactly what you wanted: que je dépende de toi. Nothing comes for free in this world. That’s the way it is. Affection is no exception to this rule: passion is a currency like any other, and I’ve paid beyond reason.

Second, your adolescent beliefs mean nothing to me. You're trying to speak up; how cute. You don’t know what you are doing. You often told me I reminded you of your father; don’t worry, you’ll soon long for me as you long for him. I’m proud of you, of the weight of your feet on my body, the darkness in your gaze, the evil in your words.

That being said, I will miss your anger. No need to apologise for your violence on our last night together. It’s true that you made me suffer, it’s true that it’s unacceptable, but carry on, sweetheart, keep hurting me. I felt honoured that your rage was reserved for me.

Don’t give me anything back, neither the money nor the respect. I’ll stay here at my desk, wearing your favourite tie, waiting for you to understand why I keep forgiving you.

Daddy loves you too.

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Mockup installation view

Vincent Moulinet

Born in 1994, he graduated in game design at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers of Paris in 2023. While curating the Octobre Numérique Faire Monde festival, he created ROT stands for Realm of Tears, which was later shown in Atlanta, Berlin, Kyoto, Geneva, Paris, and Bogotá. The project was featured in an episode of Tracks (Arte), directed by Nastasia Hadjadji, alongside the European Permajam he also organized, a game jam that brought together 150 participants in 8 European cities to create open-source and sustainable video games.

In 2023, he founded the collective Distraction.fun with Mélanie Courtinat and Jonathan Coryn, soon joined by 13 other artists. The group draws inspiration from Paul Stultzman’s writings on the transgressive potential of a non-linear, addictive, and popular culture. They contributed to the emergence of a French real-time media arts scene by initiating or curating several events at Panke Gallery (Berlin, DE), Galerie Arena (Arles, FR), Espace Dukat (Geneva, CH), the TLN Hybrid Festival (Toulon, FR), and After Hours (Paris, FR).

Together, they developed in 2024 the video game Aggregate, based on an original concept by Vincent Moulinet, in dialogue with Théo Casciani’s novel Models. Aggregate was shown, among other venues, at the Grand Palais (FR) and A.MAZE (DE), and became the subject of a speculative essay in MAGMAH, the journal of the Museum of Art and History of Geneva, as well as a podcast by curator Julia Marchand published on Projets Media.

He also collaborates as technical director and game designer with Alice Bucknell on Small Void (CPH Contemporary, Arts at CERN), Théo Casciani on Hysteria (Louvre, Centre Pompidou), and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley on The Delusion (Serpentine Galleries).

Inspired by emerging dynamics between reality and fiction, he conspires with Pam, Marie Mam-Sai Bélier, Angelo Carreri, Tom de Peyret, and Théo Casciani to imagine Harmonia Ltd., a fictional megacorporation offering liberation from all accountability through the “Life Playtest Solution” at the price of letting it decide of reality. During Nuit Blanche 2025, Harmonia Ltd. launched its “proof of concept”, drawing thousands of Parisians to experience the video games and simulations of Alexander Jermilov, Sahej Rahal, Cezar Mocan, among others.

The full bio you find here

Credits:
Concept and development - Vincent Moulinet
Narrative design - Theo Casciani
Algorithmic movement direction - Marcus Dusautoy
Technical direction - Sasha Mattner
Sound - Lugh O'Neill
Translation - Gabriel René Franjou
Precision engraving - Sasha Tchoubanov