Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
Live and work in Berlin

The counselor: I hear dissention in the ranks... Guillaume, do you know that your mother wanted to be present for the session?
Guillaume: How brave of her...
The counselor: I’m sure she has a lot to say. We’ll replay the scene and I’d suggest that Mrs. Balbach join us.
Guillaume: She’ll mix everything up. I’ll stop right away if what I say
doesn’t matter anymore.
The counselor: Guillaume, you are the director. You’ll just have to take an additional voice into account.
Mrs. Balbach: Your father never spoke badly of you!
The counselor: Mrs. Balbach, I suggest that you play your own role.
Mrs. Balbach: I’ve never done anything like this …
Extract from the session of the psychodrama, Internment Area, 2002

Frédéric Moser (1966, Saint-Imier, France), Philippe Schwinger (1961, Saint-Imier, France).
Selected solo exhibitions:
2003: Play Gallery, Berlin; 2002: Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; 2001: Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva; 2000: Lux, London; Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, France; 1999: Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany.
Selected group exhibitions and festivals: 2003: Remake, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux; 2002: Another Swiss Version, Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano; Showroom, Skopia, Geneva; 2001: Valencia Biennial; 2000: No vacancies, Internationale Videoausstellung, Berlin; Screening, Artjunky, London; Out of Space, Kunstmuseum, Thun, Germany; 1999: Prix fédéraux des beaux-arts, Kunsthalle, Zurich; 1998: Videostore, Bricks & Kicks, Vienna; Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus, Zurich/ Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Not stricly private, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld; 1997: Not enough tv, Moving Art Studio, Bruxelles; Internationaler Videokunstpreis 97, ZKM, Karlsruhe.




Psychodrama at Beacon, NY, 1960. Internment Area, 2002. Film stills.
Courtesy Play gallery for still and motiopictures, Berlin.