Exploring the internal dialogue and relationship women hold with their bodies, through performance, photography, collage, and painting.
Fuerza Cruda is a lifelong research and artistic movement exploring the internal dialogue, self-perception, and behavioral patterns that define how women relate to their bodies, themselves, and othersβan ongoing act of radical self-awareness, grounded in the question of what we believe to be true, and how those beliefs shape our behaviors and relationships.
Through interviews (podcast/docuseries), photography, video, painting, collage, and participatory sessions, Iβm documenting the raw truths of how we see ourselvesβhow shame, beauty standards, societal constructs, trauma, and resilience shape our identity, our behaviors, and our relationships.
This is a global, ongoing archiveβpart research, part ritual, part rebellion, part creative expressive necessity.
The work culminates in large-scale exhibitions around the world that are more than just art spacesβthey serve as spaces for collective awareness and reflection. Each exhibition hosts panels, talks, and offers access to mental health resources focused on self-awareness, internal dialogue, behavioral patterns, relational dynamics, mindfulness, and the stories we carry about who we are and what is true.
Fuerza Cruda is about facing our rawnessβemotionally and physicallyβand finding our strength in the choice to live, relate, and create from that place. Itβs about meeting ourselves in our most vulnerable, liberated form and letting go of everything that limits us from living as who we truly are. Itβs about choosing rawness and vulnerability over perfection, truth over silence, and finding power in the decision to live without fear of being who we are.
What is
FUERZA CRUDA?
ONE WOMAN. ONE STORY. ONE PHOTOGRAPH. ONE COLLAGE. ONE PAINTING AT A TIME.
The Process.
It begins with a moment of real, physical and emotional vulnerability β a participatory performance where you're invited to get emotionally and physically naked and be photographed. Itβs an invitation to sit with discomfort, confront shame, and choose to be seen in your rawest, most unfiltered state.
From there, I create a digital collage using your photographs, layered with plants, flowers, and symbolic elements that reflect your connection to nature β not to beautify, but to reveal. The process culminates in a custom painting: a bold visual record of who you are beyond shame, beyond expectation, and beyond the stories youβve been told.
Each stage of the Fuerza Cruda process is designed to reflect your truth β to give form to your strength, your presence, and the voice thatβs always been yours.
THE NUDE PHOTO SESSION
THE COLLAGE
THE PAINTING

βI've always been deeply sensitive to the world and the people around me, and itβs taken me a lifetime to understand how to turn that sensitivity into a strength. Over time, Iβve learned how to channel it in a way that creates a positive impactβnot just for myself, but for the people I connect with.
This sensitivity has given me the unique ability to act as a conduit, documenting the powerful journey that women go through as they rediscover their strength, reconnect with themselves, and embrace their liberation and acceptance.β - Chiara Mecozzi