The rose across centuries, carries scent, memory, and power. It can be a vessel of longing, beauty, grief, revolution, and survival. In this case the booth examines the rose already ripe with local symbolism, but reactivated the rose's representation to question histories and imagine new forms of power.

Abbas Zahedi’s works consider the rose as both offering and absence, folding personal and collective grief into ritual gestures. Cristine Brache engages the rose as a site of feminine resilience, mapping the body’s vulnerability within popular culture and collective desire. Wendy Cabrera Rubio reanimates the rose within political theater, revealing its presence in propaganda, colonial and familial structures. Chrysanne Stathacos has long explored the rose as a site of impermanence and spiritual ecology, using fallen petals as portals as portals of transitory existence.

These artists, alongside others, complicate the rose as a symbol and material, exploring its connections to protest, care, and cycles of decay and renewal.