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The artist has cycled through the window displays of various artist centers, art galleries and museums and at events in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria, accumulating the 8,800 kilometers needed to go to Victoria and back from La Baie where he lives.

The artistic practice of Jean-Jules Soucy, which combines sculpture and installation, is spread over more than twenty years. Its particularity is to leave a lot of room for public participation.

As he himself says, Jean-Jules Soucy practices « le bricolage engagé, le charriage allégorique et le prismacolor politique ».

Jean-Jules Soucy was born in La Baie, where he lives and works. He holds a bachelor's degree in art education from the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, and has presented his work both in Quebec and abroad. In 1993, he exhibited Le Tapis Stressé at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, made up of thousands of liters of folded cardboard milk collected from all over the province to reproduce the traditional motifs of the ceinture fléchée. In 2000, he inaugurated the Pyramide des Ha! Ha! Pyramid in La Baie, made up of 3,000 reflective road signs. A pioneer of participatory practices in Quebec, Jean-Jules Soucy is inspired by a poetic vision of art that gives pride of place to language, humor and mind games, while not excluding engagement and criticism. His work has been the subject of numerous documentaries and reports, notably the film directed by Bruno Carrière and produced by the National Film Board of Canada entitled L'art n'est point sans Soucy.