In October 2025, Istanbul ‘74 presented Love Will Tear Us Apart, a new site-specific installation by Ben Frost that transforms a pair of adjoining rooms into a sound study of fractured communication. Using battered foldback monitors salvaged from years of stage use, Frost creates a sonic environment where signals drift, collide and dissolve across a physical divide. The work examines how individuals strain to reach one another, how intimacy is shaped by misalignment, and how even damaged instruments can carry the residue of longing.

Celebrating its 15th edition, the contemporary art festival reshaped the territory of Istanbul, posing to all of us a challenging question, an invitation to reflect on our lives and the structures that defined them.

A bilingual collection of poems in English and French, its title alludes to the brief span of time the two singers, poets, and at the time even romantic partners, Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine, spent weaving these verses together.

Adulterers Anonymous (1982) is a soliloquy on love and on all that might be mistaken for it. Its lines have absorbed the solitude and desperation of a feeling that, even when consumed in the flesh, lingers in the body until it becomes a torture for the mind.