HEATWAVE is the exploration of a singular, overwhelming sensation: the oppressive force of summer heat. It evokes the parched air, the body’s uneasy shimmer between dryness and sweat, and the paradox of being consumed and saturated at once. The aggressive burn of dry fire and, in the same instant, the instinctive longing for water hold together in an improbable tension that reveals the poetic strangeness at the edges of sensory experience. This is then pushed to the very extreme where scorching and freezing are revealed as kin — intensities that mirror each other at the edge of perception.

Heat is never just meteorological. It is already entangled with desire, with the language of passion, and with the anxieties of a warming planet. AI serves as the medium for this unfolding. Its capacity to deliver visuals that feel both credible and impossible allows fire and water to inhabit the same body without harm. In this refusal of physical law, AI opens a space where heat can be felt as more than weather: a register of intimacy, of excess, and of the environmental forces that press upon our collective imagination.