Destruction of Paris, 2010 — mixed media on wood, 140 × 110 cm.
Paris is one of the central cities in Kende's trajectory. Not as a postcard, not as a romantic backdrop — but as a place of confrontation. Brick Lane had already happened. Amsterdam too. Paris was where the dialogue with other writers sharpened the language, where the pressure of the walls and the density of the scene left a mark that studio work alone could never produce.
The title names that relationship without softening it. Destruction is not nostalgia — it is acknowledgment. Something was broken down in Paris, and something was built in its place.
Mixed media on wood, 140 × 110 cm. The same format as Just Hate (2003) — a coincidence that connects two different moments of the same European journey. Now in a private collection.
