"Marion Moana DAVID has been practicing printmaking since 2018. She likes to make trials, to experiment with various techniques, and to explore how to use traditional printmaking methods in a new way. After living for about a year in Asia, mainly in Japan, in 2020, she worked for two years on a body of prints that tended to explore the Japanese Mountains, and the whole imaginary that evolves around it. She tends to implement gestures inspired from Japanese calligraphy into her body of works, especially her monotypes and lithographies. She likes to make monochrome prints, only using black ink, as she feels it allows her to focus on the movement, the textures, the gradation of greys and blacks.
More recently, Marion Moana DAVID started working on a new series, entitled ""Looking At You Looking At Me"", that interrogates the tension in art between the one 'looking at', and the one 'being looked at'. This body of works questions the artist's gaze, but also the model's, and plays with the codes of art history, as she chose to always depict a male model - as a female artist."