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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Panmela got to know Kehinde's work when she visited the Brooklyn Museum in 2014 in New York. The exhibition was composed of large-scale works that included his passage through Rio de Janeiro. Named “The New Republic”, Kehinde inspired an entire generation not only in the visual arts, but also in music and other fields where black culture is strong. Even today in Brazil, many young artists use the idea of “New Power” to talk about the black man who rises and has a chance to make history something different. This is how Kehinde thinks about the construction of his paintings. In addition to the admiration for the painter, Panmela built a friendship with him during the Black Rock Senegal residency.