Jennifer Latour

Born in 1983 in Sept-Îles, Quebec, Jennifer Latour is a self-taught artist based in Vancouver whose practice spans photography, sculpture, and material performance.

Before turning to the camera, she worked for nearly two decades as a special effects makeup artist for film and television—an experience that refined her sensitivity to structure, gesture, and the expressive potential of the handmade. She began photographing in 2006, gradually developing a visual language that fuses cinematic perception with sculptural invention.It was during the first lockdown in 2020 that she began her best-known series, Bound Species. In her studio, she assembles real flowers, leaves, and stems to create "new plant species": ephemeral organic sculptures, sort of delicate and surreal Frankensteins, which she then stages and photographs. This approach, which evokes 19th-century Swedish botanical studies and the Linnaean tradition of specimen classification, also brings her close to figures like Karl Blossfeldt and Joan Fontcuberta. Based in Vancouver, flowers and other plant elements constitute her raw material. Inspired by her dreams, she composes, folds, and adjusts the fine stems of her floral sculptures to develop complex entities. She shapes the eclectic identities of her chimeras through the arrangement of colors or movement, at times fluid, at times rigorously geometric. The ephemerality of these hybrids, frozen in a moment of grace, offers a reflection on the fragility of a balance ready to waver.

Her work also extends beyond the confines of the studio and gallery. In collaboration with Aritzia, she created large-scale sculptural installations, displayed in storefront windows across Canada and the United States, translating the geometries of her Shapeshifter series into architectural forms. Her images have also been used as illustrations for an opinion essay in The New York Times, published in January 2026.