Pauline David

Born in 1988, graduated from the National School of Architecture in Nancy (ENSAN) and has a master’s degree of global design, specialising in glass arts, she is passionate about scenography, lighting design and contemporary art.

 

« I’m inspired by what surrounds me, by day and by night, by the ordinary and the extraordinary,
so I can create an environment in constant evolution, unexpected, a surprise, an emotion. »

Architecture is first and foremost about light, and Pauline David skillfully blends her architectural expertise with her sense of design to shape emotionally vibrant spaces.
Fascinated by the place that light occupies in our daily lives, lighting design became an obvious choice for her.
In 2014, she founded Light is More, an agency specialised in lighting, of which she is artistic director.

« My work is fully aware of the effects light can have on humans and their environment.
The weather, the time, the sun and the moon, the seasons, the physical aspects inside and outside, are all parameters that affect our emotions, and daily rhythms. »

In 2019, she has been invited to join the women’s team responsible for creating the Women’s Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo (EXPO 2020).
Alongside Laura Gonzalez, Nadia Labaki and Mélanie Laurent, Pauline David’s lighting installation on the building’s façade offers an artistic and committed reading of the message « When Women thrive, Humanity thrives ».

In November 2022, the multi-award-winning event Noor Riyadh Festival granted her carte blanche to design the first Pavilion of Light.
IThe unique location reserved for her will give Pauline David the opportunity to create Moonlight Horizon, a monumental artwork at the crossroads of video art, architecture and land art.

«The Moonlight Horizon Pavilion is the embodiment and story of the passing of time, the tides and our circadian clock. It is a poetic, romantic, artistic, scientific and magical experience that takes visitors on a journey of discovery as the sun is sometimes eclipsed behind the Earth, and at other times shines as bright as day as the projection follows the phases of the moon to the rhythm of the tides, the wind and the passing of time.»

In March 2023, she created a visual art installation for the inauguration of Phantom, a new electronic club in Paris, in the heart of the Arena Bercy. At the crossroads of the real and the imaginary, the immersive and sensory installation uses mirrors and light to personify and reveal the venue’s ghost, transporting viewers into an allegory of emotions: fear, sadness, disgust, joy, anger, love and surprise. «Phantom is alive» is a luminous scenography, an artistic installation, an immersive creation, a work of visual art.

In 2024, she created Attraction I. This work lies at the intersection of Pauline David’s research on the world of the invisible and the intangible, linking cosmology and mineralogy. Installed in the heart of a 19th-century Parisian mansion, this sculpture is anchored to the load-bearing
wall of the building, cultivating positive energy, optimism, and confidence in the future by inviting us to follow our intuition.

« I like to create immersive and sensitive (or sensory) works based on the balance of light and shadow, shapes and materials, to bring us to contemplate the natural beauty of the world sublimated by the sunlight or moonlight. My sculptures are imbued with physical, emotional and spiritual energy.»

In 2025, she reconnects with the moon and unveils the first piece in the Moonlight Whisper series — an intimate echo of Moonlight Horizon.
This luminous immersion, where light dances with shadow, reveals a poetic space, awakens the senses, and rekindles our bond with the celestial body.
Conceived as an ode to well-being and sensory harmony, the series unfolds in three variations, each offering a unique path to reconnection:
n°1 | Moonlight Horizon — reconnection with lunar cycles
n°2 | Inner Flow — color and sound therapy
n°3 | Dream Temple — meditative pause, breathwork, and inner stillness