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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During the month of March 2023, Panmela goes to the city of Dakar, Senegal, to be part of an artistic residency promoted by the Black Rock Senegal Program. During the residency, she develops her Affective Drift series, painting, meeting new people and learning about the local culture.

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Kéwé Lô is the director of the Black Rock Senegal residency, and she was very solicitous and careful with Panmela and Artha. She has taken the sisters to her mother's factory, where they are trying to revive a Senegalese hand weaving technique.