Writing
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Marano, Virginia. “(Re)-Evaluating Artistic Norms and Temporalities: Feminist and Disability Perspectives in Contemporary Practice.” In Re-Evaluation in Feminism and Contemporary Art, edited by Katy Deepwell. Vernon Press (in print).
Marano, Virginia. “Decoding Desire: Access and Intimacy in Sexual Objects.” Journal of Design History, special issue “Designing for Disability Futures,” edited by Ignacio G. Galán and David Serlin (in print).
Marano, Virginia; Charlotte Matter; Laura Valterio; Jillian Crochet; Vincent Barras. “On the Use, Reuse, and Misuse of Medical Materials in Art: A Conversation with Vincent Barras and Jillian Crochet.” In Biomedical Visions: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Medical Practice, edited by Alfred Freeborn and Elizabeth Hughes, 23–50. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2025.
Marano, Virginia. “Carona. Unfolding a Space Called Home.” In Carona 1968–1978, edited by Tobia Bezzola and Virginia Marano, 25–40. Zurich: Edition Patrick Frey & MASI Lugano, 2025. With texts by Stephan Kunz, Bice Curiger, Andreas Schwab, and Stefan Zweifel.
Marano, Virginia. “Beyond the ‘White Cube’: Intersecting Art and Design in Hospital Spaces.” PAD: Pages on Arts and Design, special issue “Art and Design in the Workplace,” no. 27, vol. 17 (2024): 123–147.
Marano, Virginia; Charlotte Matter; Laura Valterio. “Bodily Matter and Complex Embodiment in the Art of Donald Rodney.” RACAR: Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review 49, no. 2 (Fall 2024): 112–128.
Marano, Virginia; Charlotte Matter; Laura Valterio. “Beyond Representation: Disability in Art History.” In Eine Kunstgeschichte ist keine Kunstgeschichte. Kunstwissenschaftliche Perspektivierungen in Text und Bild, edited by Birte Kleine-Benne, 225–240. Berlin: Logos, 2024.
Ren, Julie; Charlotte Matter; Rosa Sancarlo; Virginia Marano. “Crisis and Collectives Shaping Art Events: From Events that Matter to Events that Care.” Third Text 37, nos. 5–6 (2024): 601–615.
Marano, Virginia. “Being (not) at Home in the World: Exiled Women Artists in Postwar New York.” Image & Text, no. 37 (2023): 1–25.
Marano, Virginia. “Gertrud Goldschmidt and Ruth Vollmer: Women in Design between Material and Mathematical Experimentations.” PAD: Pages on Arts and Design, special issue “The Women’s Making,” no. 18 (2020): 173–195.