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.

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.

In the middle of the Black Rock Senegal Residency period, an event called Ñu Dadje was promoted, in which the residency celebrated its fourth cycle and opened space for the Senegalese artistic community to get to know the project and the resident artists. On this occasion, Panmela made two live paintings of people who were ready to pose.