Exploring the internal dialogue and relationship women hold with their bodies
— through performance, photography, collage, and painting.
The act of being photographed in your raw, unfiltered state is not about beauty — it’s about confronting the way you see yourself.
It’s a physical and emotional process that challenges internalized shame and invites a new kind of awareness, ownership, and acceptance.
What is FUERZA CRUDA?
Fuerza Cruda is an ongoing art project and visual investigation into the relationship women have with their bodies, themselves, and their internal dialogue. Through photography, performance, collage, and painting, I use art as a tool to confront the narratives and shame that have shaped how we see and speak to ourselves. This work isn’t about beautifying or fixing — it’s about facing what’s there, unfiltered. It’s a physical and emotional process that unfolds through participatory art, pushing us into awareness, discomfort, and eventually, acceptance. Each photograph, each performance, each artwork becomes a record of what it looks like to witness yourself fully — to examine what you’ve been taught, and decide whether or not to keep believing it.
This project is rooted in collaboration and ongoing research. I work with women directly — not just as subjects, but as participants in their own disentangling. Fuerza Cruda lives in galleries, on walls, in conversation, in movement — and in the charged space between artist and participant where something raw is revealed. It is art made to confront, reflect, and incite change — in us, and around us.
The Process.
It begins with a moment of real, physical and emotional vulnerability — a participatory performance where you're invited to get emotionally and physically naked and be photographed. It’s 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 — 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 you’ve been told.
Each stage of the Fuerza Cruda process is designed to reflect your truth — to give form to your strength, your presence, and the voice that’s always been yours.
THE NUDE PHOTO SESSION
Embracing Emotional and Physical Vulnerability
THE COLLAGE
Weaving Your Story
THE PAINTING
Celebrating your Essence
“I've always been deeply sensitive to the world and the people around me, and it’s taken me a lifetime to understand how to turn that sensitivity into a strength. Over time, I’ve learned how to channel it in a way that creates a positive impact—not 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.”
- Chiara Mecozzi
YOU ARE
A WORK
OF ART
Follow my process…
