As a visual artist, Stanley Février explores, through his installations and sculptures, the physical and psychological suffering inflicted on people by the violence of the modern world. While his politically engaged works draw inspiration from power dynamics in the age of globalization, they also address more intimate issues, such as our relationship with ourselves and with others - relationships that have become strained in a world where listening is losing its value. The sensitivity of Février’s gaze and the effectiveness of his artistic strategies are both moving and thought-provoking. He seeks to create a space for encounter where participants are at the center of the work. He encourages them to re-engage with politics and to assert their lived experiences to complete the work; through an awareness of the self, of the collective, of its political power, and of the political “understood as concern for oneself and for others.” A graduate in visual and media arts, his artistic and conceptual concerns are rooted in institutional critique, issues of identity, and the violence and inequalities generated by the latter.
Février has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, New York, Hong Kong, and Cuba, as well as in France, Germany, Spain, China, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Mexico. In 2019, he took part in “Over My Black Body” at the UQAM Gallery, an exhibition curated by Eunice Belidor and Anaïs Castro. Février is the recipient of several creative grants. In 2019, he received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to produce “America… en toute impunité.” This multi-part work (video, sound, sculptures, archives, and photographs) was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Maison de la culture de Longueuil in February and March 2019. In 2019, the artist also presented the work “cette chair” in the group exhibition D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous ... (2019) at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ). In 2020, he was the winner of the 4th MNBAQ Contemporary Art Prize. Then in 2022, the artist was a finalist for the Sobey Art Prize
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