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title: "Tongue"
summary: "Tongue. Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. Bound with a bloodied rope, preventing any movement, a tongue cut and separated from the body composes this image."
description: "Bound with a bloodied rope, preventing any movement, a tongue cut and separated from the body composes this image."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/lengua/"
type: "page"
language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-11T11:10:41-05:00"
---

Publicado: 4 of October of 2021

# Tongue

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

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**Photo credits: William Bahos**  
Click on the image to enlarge

#### William Bahos

2016  
oil on canvas  
20 x 20 cm

Bound with a bloodied rope, preventing any movement, a tongue cut and separated from the body composes this image. Silence, when it is a natural expression of human freedom, is a valuable space that allows one to make oneself present without resorting to words; however, when it results from violence and coercion, it ceases to be a choice and becomes a war wound. William Bahos’s work invites reflection on censored voices, imposed muteness and the marks left on bodies violently silenced, prompting us to question the right to dissent and freedom of expression enshrined in article 20 of the Constitution.

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#### See

[About the Artist](https://williambahos.wordpress.com/)

[About the Artwork](https://issuu.com/macbogota/docs/curadurias_mac_2018__-compressed)

[Sentencia T-391-07 Libertad de expresión](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2007/T-391-07.htm)

[Libertad de expresión en la Corte IDH](https://www.corteidh.or.cr/sitios/libros/todos/docs/libertad-expresion.pdf)

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