Artist Caroline David

Caroline David is a French contemporary painter whose work explores identity, corporeal, and social transformations in the digital age. Born in the Haut-Jura region, she began painting in 2006 in Budapest, where she lived for seven years before continuing her artistic journey in China and then in France.

These international experiences have shaped a keen sensitivity to the tensions between globalization, urbanization, and the erosion of biological reference points.

Based in France since 2014, her work has been exhibited in the Lille metropolitan area, in Paris, internationally, and in her native Jura, across galleries, off-site venues, and contemporary art fairs.

Her paintings deploy a virtual, frontal, and silent figuration, where bodies become interfaces, avatars, or bionic entities. Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, she asserts the materiality of painting as a counterpoint to the dematerialization of the world. Rejecting speculative digital formats such as NFTs, Caroline David adopts a critical stance toward contemporary technologies. She views painting as an act of resistance — a space for reflection on the excesses of algorithmic capitalism, the commodification of the body, and the loss of sensitive identity.

She also develops written reflections on the philosophical stakes of the digital era. Today, she continues an engaged artistic practice at the intersection of critical figuration, technological ethics, and the philosophy of the living.