Panmela Castro’s performances are rooted in the body as a site of listening, conflict, and transformation. Through them, the artist weaves together affect and structural issues, creating actions that move between the intimate and the collective, the symbolic and the political.

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Her performative practice is marked by gestures of repair, surrender, and the construction of connection. Over the years, Castro has developed public rituals of recognition (Honra ao Mérito), purification (Culto Contra os Embustes), farewell (Ruptura), and communion (Chá das Cinco), always placing audience participation at the core of the work.

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These actions do not seek mere provocation, but rather the creation of spaces of belonging and the affective elaboration of themes such as loneliness, gender violence, desire, memory, and power. The artist proposes the body in action as a political agent — fragile, radical, and sensitive — capable of reshaping narratives and affecting reality.