In the conception of Panmela Castro's Affective Drift, the fortuity is the subject of a search for belonging. 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 surrenders to this movement in territories where she is led by the network of affection she develops by letting herself go.

During some weeks of the year 2024, the artist set up a studio on a small balcony in Lisbon, adorned with plants and Portuguese tiles where she received friends, newly acquainted people, and strangers to be portrayed in her drift process.

Argentinian travesti Lola Bahjan was in the city on an artistic residency when she came across Panmela Castro's work on the internet. As a poet and singer, she decided to build her image painted with a box (her musical instrument), a draped black skirt and a scarf in her hair. The afternoon together was meditative; she spent most of the time still, eyes closed, with a harmonious, delicate and serene countenance, reflecting the peaceful aura of the garden.