Gisela Torres

ThanXX to all you wonderful peeps 😘😘that celebrated with me last night @tpgbookshop @thephotographersgallery and also to all those wonderful peeps who were unable to attend🤍🤍🤍 Reading by the brilliant @rosalindjana ❣️ ‘What Lee Wore’ is available @tpgbookshop and on their online shop. It is also available online @chateau.international from @lillianwilkie at a Bigger Book Fair @peckham24photo Friday 15th May- Sunday 17th May #Photography #photobook #independentpublishing #whatleewore #photographersgallery

Get @reshare_app • @thephotographersgallery Join us on Thursday 7 May for the launch of her latest publication, What Lee Wore! @giselafoto ⁠ ⁠ New York-born, London-based artist Gisela Torres was co-leading a workshop at Farleys House and Gallery, the former residence of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, when she decided to explore the grounds. She stumbled upon the clothing archive of photographer Lee Miller, en route to archival storage.⁠ ⁠ For Torres, it was a quasi-unearthly encounter, these materials charged with a strong sense of Miller’s aura. The resulting images have a gauzy, hallucinatory quality.⁠ ⁠ Rather than a catalogue of outfits, What Lee Wore explores clothing as a vessel for memory, and archival storage as a charged space of possibility. It questions what remains when the garment outlasts the body, and reimagines the clothing archive as a landscape of ghostly encounters and latent intimacy.⁠ ⁠ The event includes a presentation by Gisela Torres of a special edition w/ silk scarf and a reading by Rosalind Jana whose essay accompanies Torres’ photographs in the book. #thephotographersgallery #independentpublishing #leemiller #photography #books

What Lee Wore Gisela Torres in conversation with Lillian Wilkie 17 March 2026, 7pm, London @giselafoto joins writer and publisher @lillianwilkie for a live conversation around What Lee Wore, a project reflecting on the clothing archive of photographer Lee Miller. The work began with a chance encounter at Farleys House and Gallery in East Sussex, where Torres discovered Miller’s wardrobe stored in white garment bags as it was being prepared for archival storage. Through polaroids, emulsion lifts and large-scale prints, Torres approaches the archive as an intimate and charged space shaped by memory, presence and imagination. Together, Torres and Wilkie will discuss the making of the project and consider how photography can reactivate the material traces of historical lives, allowing the archive to move between documentation and interpretation. Presented by @photolondonfair Reserve your place and sign up via the link in the Chateau International or Photo London bio. Attendees will receive a special 20% discount on purchases of the book.

“Here and there, one catches a glimpse of a sleeve or stiff layers of netting nestled beneath a hem, but it really is only a glimpse”. ‘A garment bag is not meant to be beautiful’ @rosalindjana Essay included in ‘What Lee Wore’ published by @lillianwilkie @chateau.international Coinciding with @tpgbookshop ‘What Lee Wore’ book event tonite @thephotographersgallery and @photolondonfair happening next week, a series of prints made by @crosspost.ltd will be available to purchase @gertrude__art What Lee Wore, no.13, 2026 Archival pigment print 24x16 in. Edition of 5 +1 AP #Photography #collecting #leemiller #archivalprints #whatleewore

Self-portrait w/Armour… Copper, metal and brass #protection #metals #sculpture #selfportrait #photography

“… To Torres, it was a quasi-unearthly encounter, these materials charged with a strong sense of Miller’s aura.” from ‘A garment bag is not meant to be beautiful.’ A sublime essay written by the brilliant @rosalindjana included in ‘What Lee Wore’ published by @chateau.international by @lillianwilkie Limited edition book event and reading happening in May @tpgbookshop … #whatleewore #leemiller #aura #photography #independentpublishing

Get @reshare_app • @tinworksart artnet news looks ahead to a major year for the legacy of Edmonia Lewis. Her first-ever retrospective, “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone,” is currently on view at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts through June 7, bringing together 30 works by the first Black and Indigenous artist born in the U.S. to achieve international acclaim as a sculptor. This summer, Tinworks Art will present “Chisel and Razor: The Artistic Legacies of Edmonia and Samuel Lewis,” a two-act exhibition exploring Edmonia’s groundbreaking career alongside that of her brother Samuel, a performer, musician, and community leader in Bozeman whose house has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999. Featuring contemporary work by Sanford Biggers and Sonya Clark, plus an immersive commission by Rome-based sculptor Auriea Harvey imagining the visit between siblings that never happened in life. Act I opens on June 19—stay tuned for details on the opening celebration! Read more in artnet news at the link in our bio

Get @reshare_app • @peabodyessex Edmonia Lewis still resonates with our current culture! Her work and life have been reinterpreted by contemporary artists and mentioned in the HBO hit show @justlikethatmax . There’s even an Edmonia Lewis musical! ⁠ ⁠ One of the contemporary artists inspired by Lewis’ work is Gisela Torres (@giselafoto ), an American-born artist of Afro-Cuban descent. Lewis’ long-unmarked grave is located in a neighborhood where Torres lived in London. When Torres discovered she had been unknowingly walking past her fellow artist’s gravesite for years, she described a kind of psychic connection — a feeling that Lewis really had been there all along. That realization sparked a powerful body of work currently on display in our exhibition, “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone.” Torres’ work, “Conjure No. 3” (pictured above) is a photographic print on marble. It shows Torres walking through the streets and locations in Italy where Lewis lived and worked. ⁠ ⁠ 📖 Read more about Lewis’ renewed presence in popular culture and the contemporary artists who continue to be inspired by her life in our recent Q&A with Curator-at-Large Lydia Peabody. Get the full interview by visiting pem.org/blog or clicking the Connected Blog link in our Linktree! ⁠ ⁠ 📸: Gisela Torres, Conjure No. 3, 2020. Marble and paper. Museum purchase. 2025.19.1. © Gisela Torres. Peabody Essex Museum. Image courtesy of the artist.⁠ ⁠ @edmoniamusical #EdmoniaLewisatPEM #peabodyessex #contemporaryart #EdmoniaLewis ⁠ ⁠

Last month, in my hometown of NYC I paid a visit to @studiomuseum and one of the many wonders I encountered was Untitled(heliotrope). Commissioned by the Studio Museum in Harlem to create a site-informed work for its terrace staircase. The artist @camillenorment sculptural and sound installation is inspired by contemporary and historical migration. Handwoven by the artist herself, brass wires frame brass tubes of varying lengths and diameters; the resulting shape recalls both a pipe organ and a raft. #installation #sculpture #sound #studiomuseum #harlem

Please join us next Tuesday for an online talk on archive, memory and the revered #leemiller Reserve your place and sign up via photolondon link… Thank you @photolondonfair @chateau.international for making it possible🌟🌟🌟 #photolondon #book #independentpublishing #talks

What Lee Wore Gisela Torres in conversation with Lillian Wilkie 17 March 2026, 7pm, London Gisela Torres (@giselafoto ) joins writer and publisher Lillian Wilkie (@lillianwilkie ) for a live conversation around What Lee Wore, a project reflecting on the clothing archive of photographer Lee Miller. The work began with a chance encounter at Farleys House and Gallery in East Sussex, where Torres discovered Miller’s wardrobe stored in white garment bags as it was being prepared for archival storage. Through polaroids, emulsion lifts and large-scale prints, Torres approaches the archive as an intimate and charged space shaped by memory, presence and imagination. Together, Torres and Wilkie will discuss the making of the project and consider how photography can reactivate the material traces of historical lives, allowing the archive to move between documentation and interpretation. Presented in partnership with Chateau International (@chateau.international ). Reserve your place and sign up via the link in Photo London’s bio.

Get @reshare_app • @chateau.international We’re thrilled that What Lee Wore by Gisela Torres was selected for the @foam_amsterdam Book Club. Thank you @jilkegolbach ! “Not long ago, artist Gisela Torres led a Surrealist photography workshop at Farleys and, wandering the grounds between sessions, stumbled upon a small outbuilding. Through a window, she glimpsed an eerie sight that resembled a spectral gathering – ghostly forms hovering in the half-light. On closer inspection, they revealed themselves as garment bags and folds of tissue paper. It was here that Miller’s wardrobe was being kept temporarily, before being moved to long-term storage. ... From the feel of its tissue-like pages to its delicate stitch-binding, What Lee Wore is a hauntingly beautiful object to behold.” @giselafoto @rosalindjana @foam_magazine