"[...] Definition. When any given bodies of the same or different magnitude are compelled by other bodies to remain in contact, or if they be moved at the same or different rates of speed, so that their mutual movements should preserve among themselves a certain fixed relation, we say that such bodies are in union, and that together they compose one body or individual, which is distinguished from other bodies by this fact of union [...]
( Spinoza, Ethics)

GARLAND OF ROSES, sculpture, installation, 2002-2006

Roses generally refer to the flowers, their red colour and to a pleasant fragrance.
GARLAND OF ROSES is the etymological translation of Rosary (lat. rosarium), a catholic object used for praying in the honour of the Virgin Marie.
This garland of roses represents like an opposite to roses. It is still an object in the shape of a rosary but white, immaculate, a ghost with clinging smell. Instead of the flower's perfume, we smell something that reminds us a past memory, a smell that haunts grand-mothers wardrobes:
Naphthalene.
The Rosary, like naphthalene, belongs to the past. It is therefore presented in a glass container, like a relic, something holy but that is no longer in use.