Léa Vandeveld Exhibition: When Art and Health Meet

The exhibition shows how art can support patients at the GIN Centre and strengthen their empowerment. It highlights the work of Léa Vandeveld.

An evening dedicated to artistic creation in the name of health

The event brought together healthcare professionals, partner associations, representatives from the city of Nice, including Juliette Raffort-lareyre, delegate for health, and art enthusiasts. The conviction was the same: art has a role to play in supporting patients.

Founded three years ago, the GIN Centre provides healthcare for women, from “adolescence to old age” including medically assisted reproduction and pregnancy monitoring, as well as prevention and treatment of gynecological diseases, both benign and cancerous.

A care philosophy focused on “empowerment”

For Dr. Kaïs Razzouk, the exhibition embodies a care philosophy that goes beyond technical procedure. “This woman must leave our consultation with more strength, more power over her life, her health”, he explained, evoking the objective of “empowerment” that drives the teams.

According to him, the link with art is natural: “when a patient can look at a work of art, this work of art is already therapeutic”, offering each one “a mirror of her own emotions.”

A link that was confirmed by the health delegate for whom “art allows us to humanize care.”

The story between Léa Vandeveld and the centre was born from a singular meeting since the artist was a patient, before a conversation during a consultation led to a collaboration. “She honors us with her talent, her work, the softness of her canvases”, the doctor said.

Léa Vandeveld, between acrylic and “make-up for art”

The artist spoke about her approach. “I am delighted to be here, delighted to represent art and health, because it is really something that touches me”, she confided, recalling that she donates a percentage of her sales to the association of the gynecological centre.

Her work, exhibited that evening, combines two worlds: an acrylic component and “make-up for art”, consisting of painting with makeup. “There is something for everyone”, she summed up, before warmly thanking the centre’s team as well as her manager, Nathalie Vandeveld, who has been at her side for fifteen years.

An appreciative audience

Among the guests, plastic artist Silva Husta, who has known Léa Vandeveld “for a very long time”, praised the freshness of her work and its coherence with the place: “her work is very, very fresh” and “really suited” to this space where “people come with health concerns”, she confided.

She also highlighted the originality of her technique, which “works with next to nothing”, citing notably the use of lipstick, while praising “a great artistic lineage” that the artist knows how to maintain.

A shared commitment to women’s health

Beyond the exhibition, the GIN Centre regularly organizes workshops and information evenings about breastfeeding or menopause. An evening that reaffirmed that art and medicine can move forward hand in hand in the service of women’s health.