Ortésia Cabrera Fuster

Ortésia Cabrera Fuster (born 1989), known by the stage name ivaquexuta, is a multidisciplinary artist and politician from Catalonia, who has worked as a writer and art curator. She has also worked as a narrator, playwright, musician and translator.

Career

As an artist She is part of the Assembly Platform of Artists of Catalonia. Her artistic works focus on the youth situation in the Terres de l'Ebre, the job insecurity of Millennials or the situation of neurodivergent people in Catalonia. She also works with postcolonialism, the third sector, contemporary art, and philosophy.

In 2017, she directed the ExtincióFest event at the Lo Pati Art Center. In 2021, she received a production grant from the Hangar center, with which she made the podcast intimidad forzada ("forced intimacy") in collaboration with the Asperger Association of Catalonia. She also won the Miquel Casablancas Prize Visual Arts Contest, organized by Sant Andreu Contemporani, in the mediation category. In 2023, she participated in the performance "Los escribientes" ("The scribes"), organized by Utopia Ramblas in La Rambla, together with artists Cecilia Vieira, Enrique Baeza, Marla Jacarilla and Jordi Vizcaíno. In addition, she has exhibited her work at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Sala de Arte Joven, the Mèdol – Centre d’Arts Contemporànies de Tarragona

As a politician

In politics, she is in favor of Catalan independence, the LGBTQ+ rights movement and feminist struggle. She opposes Neoliberalism, patriarchy, the Spanish monarchy, the Spanish State, Racism, Sexism, Classism, marginalization and Colonialism. In addition, she is linked to the associative fabric of Amposta, has organized alternative festivals in the municipality and is locally involved in popular culture and the feminist movement.

Personal life

Cabrera identifies as a trans woman or trans non-binary. She came out in 2022. She also labels herself as rural, Catalan, from a working class background, neurodivergent and disabled. She is a survivor of child sexual abuse.