On Arrival
April 2023
On Arrival is a reflection, a poem, a verse, where Ifra expresses her experience of navigating the art world, how she feels when she finds herself in these (un)familiar spaces, and momentary feeling of discomfort on arriving in these spaces.
Especially inspired by Sara Ahmed’s article “A Phenomenology of Whiteness” and the concept of how the arrival of non-white bodies can create disorientation and disrupt the arrangement of things. However, this disruption does not necessarily lead to a disorientation of whiteness but rather a feeling of discomfort within the arriver.
Especially inspired by Sara Ahmed’s article “A Phenomenology of Whiteness” and the concept of how the arrival of non-white bodies can create disorientation and disrupt the arrangement of things. However, this disruption does not necessarily lead to a disorientation of whiteness but rather a feeling of discomfort within the arriver.
The poem is a part of our publication.