Lara Demori
is a contemporary art historian, a tenure-track researcher at Pegaso University and a visiting scholar at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome, where she served as a Research Assistant from 2022 to 2025. She obtained her PhD in History of Art from the University of Edinburgh and carried out research and curatorial work at the Haus der Kunst in Munich as a Goethe-Institut Postdoctoral Fellow and, subsequently, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a Research Associate. Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Italian and Latin American art, with a particular emphasis on transnational relations, performance, the body and the politics of representation. She is the author of Transnational Perspectives on the Art of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica: From Abstraction to Participation (Routledge, 2025). From February 2027, she will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow based in Buenos Aires and Rome, working on a project dedicated to representations of the maternal body in Latin American visual culture.