In the multimedia installation English Rose, Tagny probes the culture of the rose, a coveted flower that is central to a vast global industry. As the emblem of England—the Tudor rose, since the reign of Henry VII (1485–1509)—the rose embodies the idea of power, but also that of hybridity. English Rose draws our gaze to this polysemous flower in an architectural installation, taking up the features of the botanical garden, in which videos, photographs, and organic forms converge and dialogue. One of the videos considers how bodies are used for the benefit of horticultural projects—bodies and gestures that Tagny tries to reposition, via performance and archive, at the core of a relationship with nature. Through these movements, she challenges the sometimes-difficult conditions of agricultural work, in which the body becomes a machine—and essential condition for intensive rosiculture, which employs millions of people around the world. Cultivated for the most part in Ecuador and Kenya, the roses that are found on the European and North American markets become symbols of migration, as the journey travelled by the flowers echoes those of displaced bodies. Retracing the domestication of nature as so many layers of sediment in a garden, English Rose dwells on the ways in which colonial structures manifest today. The work brings to the surface buried stories and knowledge, drawing attention to the harmful ecological effects of the flower industry as well as to the spirituality and commitment wrapped up in the care showered upon a flower.