Georgia Hablutzel and Quentin Dauvergne created the booklets published on the Whitechapel Gallery website with tutors Sue Barr and Caroline Rabourdin for the AA Visiting School in Richelieu.The works are the result of individual research on the town of Richelieu and its history. Both projects look at the town from a distance, allowing for new interpretations and displacements through the re-appropriation of historical documents. Quentin’s photographic work was conducted in the gardens of Versailles, which were heavily inspired by the gardens of the ideal city, whilst Georgia’s interviews were conducted on site, and merge with words written over 450 years ago by John Evelyn during his visit to the town of Richelieu.

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