{"product_id":"tiona-nekkia-mcclodden-se-te-subio-el-santo-are-you-in-a-trance","title":"Tiona Nekkia McClodden: Se Te Subió El Santo (Are You In A Trance?)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"richtext\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSe Te Subió El Santo is a collection of self – portraits taken by the artist directly after she awoke every morning while away on a week-long residency in Iowa City, IA at the Center for Afrofuturist Studies in Spring 2016. This daily practice confronts notions of the artist’s interests in rendering a full self implicit of gender, race, sexuality, and spirituality while challenging and collapsing the intersections of each identity as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe title of the work is taken from Ana Mendieta, the Iowa Years: A critical study, 1969 through 1977 where Julia Ann Herzberg writes in the dissertation:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAna and Raquelin Mendieta’s vocabulary contained many Afro-Cuban idiomatic expressions. For example, they would often respond to a friend who was acting in an unruly or hyperactive manner by asking” “Se te subió el santo? (“Are you in a trance?”) In the Afro-Cuban context, the expression “subirse el santo” is used in religious ceremony when the orisha\/saint takes possession of the believer.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe monograph also includes an essay by author Akwaeke Emezi.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003caside class=\"mt--1 richtext richtext--condensed\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e2019\u003cbr\u003e978-0997444698\u003cbr\u003e94 pages\u003cbr\u003e6.25 x 8.25 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003c\/aside\u003e","brand":"Capricious Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555822768185,"sku":"210000004593","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/screenshot-2026-09-02-170933.png?v=1790280626","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/tiona-nekkia-mcclodden-se-te-subio-el-santo-are-you-in-a-trance","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}