---
title: "Cupboard with shoes"
summary: "Cupboard with shoes. Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. Photo credits: Reproduced with permission of the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá – MAMBO Click on the image to enlarge This arrangement of battered shoes, collected from the streets and rubbish dumps of Barranquilla and displayed in an old wooden cupboard, evokes the production system and the condition of workers."
description: "Photo credits: Reproduced with permission of the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá – MAMBO Click on the image to enlarge This arrangement of battered shoes, collected from the streets and rubbish dumps of Barranquilla and displayed in an old wooden cupboard, evokes the production system and the condition of workers."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/alacena-con-zapatos/"
type: "page"
language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-11T12:03:22-05:00"
---

Publicado: 4 of October of 2021

# Cupboard with shoes

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[Gallery 2. Rights](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/)

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**Photo credits: Reproduced with permission of the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá – MAMBO**  
Click on the image to enlarge

#### Grupo El Sindicato

1976  
Assembly  
130 x 180 x 60 cm

This arrangement of battered shoes, collected from the streets and rubbish dumps of Barranquilla and displayed in an old wooden cupboard, evokes the production system and the condition of workers. The “Sindicato,” whose name alludes to the labour struggle, the degradation of the environment, the city and the surroundings, reflects on the conception of the individual as a replaceable and valueless piece. The work challenges article 25 of the Constitution, which protects the right to work under dignified and fair conditions.

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#### See

[About the Artwork](http://liberatorio.org/?p=8026)

[About the Artist](https://icaa.mfah.org/s/es/item/1134222#?c=&%20m=&s=&cv=-1&xywh=398%2C953%2C857%2C480&m=)

[Sentencia C-107-2002. Trabajo condiciones dignas](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2002/c-107-02.htm)

[Derecho al trabajo en la Corte IDH](https://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/r26115.pdf)

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