In the conception of Panmela Castro's Affective Drift, life is guided by meetings by chance, in a process of feeling liberated to float. Moments of encountering that are aleatory and others that were already written. In this series, the artist let herself go by a movement in territories in which she is taken by a network of affections she builds as she goes.

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Print from Izabela's Instagram post about the residence.

Affective Drift is a series by Panmela Castro where the artist lives or visits the house/city of a close friend, usually activists who influences her thinking, producing works based on this relationship.

Jandira Queiroz has been a friend for a decade. Panmela met Jandira at a presentation meeting of the AMB (Articulação de Mulheres Brasileiras) and from there on they became close friends, with Jandira actively participating in her feminist education and as an activist. In 2010 they founded together with other women the NAMI Network, an organization that uses the arts to promote human rights in which Panmela is president, and Jandira adviser.

Isabela is Jandira's daughter, and during high school she became an education activist, was from a student movement, becoming director of the National Student Union (UNE), participating in the articulation of the wave of demonstrations and occupations of schools and universities in 2016. Due to her trajectory, Isabela then decides to dedicate herself to the arts, partly influenced by Panmela, who has known her since she was very young.

The two stayed together for two weeks during the Residency in Olhos D'Água, where Isabela, as a pupil of Panmela Castro, produced a series of ten paintings.