On Wednesday, August 9, the Conseil des arts et de la culture de Vaudreuil-Soulanges (CACVS) and CISSS de la Montérégie-Ouest unveiled the identity of the artist selected in response to call for projects 3 for the integration of arts and culture in the future Vaudreuil-Soulanges hospital. 

The jury chose Jardin de verre by Pointe-Fortune artist Isabelle Parson. The creation of this work is intended to evoke and highlight the community aspect of the future hospital and anchor it in its community.

The creative process will enable future users to connect with the future hospital and make it their own. The artist has taken this community aspect into account, and is proposing an innovative concept aimed at all citizens of the area. 

About Jardin de verre 

Through an alternative photography workshop held in a greenhouse, the artist wishes to illustrate a symbolic parallel between the greenhouse and the hospital, both dedicated to the care and cultivation of life. The artist will guide the creation of a work that is both intimate and collective, micro and macro, perpetual and ephemeral. Participants will also be invited to compose a wish for a future hospital patient.
 
The workshops will result in the installation of a large-format collective work, made up of 404 microscope slides into which the mini-creations created by citizens will be inserted.The micro-creations will also be used to create a series of benevolent greetings cards.

"The jury was keen to highlight the authenticity and sensitivity of artist Isabelle Parson's proposal.These notions, inseparable from the third call for entries, undoubtedly confirm the human aspect of this project, endowing it with a strong social and even collective sense. What's more, the artist has succeeded in creating a harmonious score between the codes of the fields of science and art, in perfect harmony with the holistic approach of the hospital to come. This proposal, offering a mature dialogue between intention and idea, won over the jury with its sensitive and compassionate nature, but also with its great plastic quality."

Karine Landerman, visual artist, cultural manager and jury member.

Isabelle Parson is pursuing a Master's degree in photography at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has recently been shown, notably in the exhibition l'Érosion de la scène at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau (2022) alongside David Lafrance and Miri Chekhanovich, at Art Souterrain (Créer des Ponts, 2021), Artch - art contemporain émergent (2020) and at the Foire d'art contemporain de Saint-Lambert (2020-2019).She is the recipient of several awards and distinctions, including The Mildred Lande and Margot Lande Graduate Scholarship in Photography (2022, Concordia) and the Coup de coeur de la relève award from Esse magazine (2021). In 2021, Isabelle is doing a residency on Culture Montérégie's "Culture vitale, culture locale" Instagram account.Her works are part of private and institutional collections. 

The sums required for the realization of the work and the steps surrounding the call for projects stem from the cultural development agreement between the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC.

The CISSS de la Montérégie-Ouest hopes to capitalize on this collaboration to increase the presence of arts and culture in its other facilities.