Inès David Cieutat
Cultural producer and textile artist, specialising in contemporary art. Experience in installation, exhibition production and mediation with diverse audiences, with training in cultural management and languages.
Open for work and collaborations: write me at inesmdavid@gmail.com
A hands-on DIY electronics workshop to build, and take home, a star-shaped synthesiser that plays chords, melodies and rhythms.
A map of L’Hospitalet’s creative network, from research into how public cultural funding shapes peripheral art networks. Part of my Master’s thesis, University of Barcelona, 2025.
An interactive installation in a mist: a touch sets off a glitch of sound, which sets off a glitch of light.
A week-long workshop building collaborative electronic music instruments. From it came Núvol, a multiplayer instrument installed for the Festes de Gràcia 2026.
Tapestries from Aspirateur de nuit on the wall at afterschool’s start of summer event.
Building a synthesiser from wood, buttons, solder and wires, for people with no previous experience: electronic hardware made accessible and creative.
A collective archive of the Garbuix festival at Ca La Fou.
Aspirateur de nuit and Maria Chídan joined up to make collaborative one-off pieces, mixing imaginaries and materials (metal, textiles, found objects), for the second edition of Nuff kiosk, where I also sold my bags.
Ethnographic research and theatre performance project. Role: production, visual identity and documentation.
La sombra que deja el hilo is a project led by the Arraiga association, which I joined in January 2025. Our practice is based on memory, cultural legacies and situated knowledge. We look at how art can be used as a tool for social transformation, through a combined focus on political education and theatre.
“La sombra que deja el hilo” (The Shadow Left by the Thread) is a participatory theatre performance with elderly women, created from ethnographic research with a group of older women living in different neighbourhoods of Barcelona since February 2024.
The project is site-specific: first came a week of workshops with the elderly women of Montbau, the neighbourhood where the show takes place. It’s a laboratory of theatre and memory, where we try to bring out the dissonances between past and present. We ask the women to share their stories and reflect on how customs and society have changed.
How do you feel as an old woman nowadays? What has changed? What hasn’t? What is happiness to you? How would you convince an alien not to destroy Earth?
After the workshops comes the performance: we place the themes and all the contributions in a dystopian future, where elderly women are hunted if they’re deemed useless. In this way, we reveal the true essence of turbocapitalism: a philosophy that denies and destroys life as it is.
Instagram: the play · the exhibition
Small-scale treasures by the artists (prints, zines, books) at the launch of the Grab n Go booth.
Shapes and patterns around Maria’s creations, with poems, at Limbo Project’s pre-opening.
On the stairs of our flat, playing with swords, castle keys and edits of medieval princess video games.
A wooden deck built with Colin Calderhead for the garden of Château Le Bas Bleu.
A map of where to go out, produce and exhibit in L’Hospitalet, written for Artist Ally and inspired by Hospicharting: from experimental residencies to international galleries, industrial studios and concert venues.
El Pati presented its project at Eufònic Pro: promoting arts and performance culture in liminal spaces such as Zona Franca and L’Hospitalet, as a safe space for emerging artists rooted in care, collaboration and professionalisation.
Malpaís opened its doors with an exhibition of the projects in residence and a performance by laSADCUM, the dance company of the choreographer Guillem Jiménez, who dances in the photo.
Production, scenography and visual identity.
The opening of El Pati de Malpaís, a series of events with Malpaís, with Gal·la, Esmeralda and Ari Cardozo, artists from Barcelona’s underground scene.
El Pati is a joint project by a collective of artists, cultural managers, researchers and architects. This year it worked with Malpaís Art Gallery to host its events and workshops: concert cycles for emerging electronic, ambient and performance artists from Barcelona and L’Hospitalet, and legal guidance and curatorial help for emerging artists.
El Pati has a hybrid structure: it supports and produces multidisciplinary cultural events, and gives legal and administrative guidance to artists living or working in peripheral neighbourhoods.
Funding: Injuve grant, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Generalitat de Catalunya.
Project page · Malpaís · @elpati · Instagram
Programming design and scenography.
For the third edition of Bivac, the youth philosophy festival promoted by La Sullivan and funded by the CCCB, we chose a universal theme: failure.
Carpentry and installation.
A wooden platform on the river for the Rizomes festival: a double deck, 8 × 2.5 m with a second level of 5 × 1.2 m, made from 100 cedar planks and standing without foundations. Creative direction: Virginia; lighting and set design: La Cami (Estudio del Espacio); carpentry and installation with Nico, Blu and Pau Heras.