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title: "Untitled (I wanted to be a teacher)"
summary: "Untitled (I wanted to be a teacher). 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 photograph, from the series “Various Verbs,” taken in a nursing home in Chocó, explores the illusion of desire, being and wanting to do."
description: "Photo credits: Reproduced with permission of the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá – MAMBO Click on the image to enlarge This photograph, from the series “Various Verbs,” taken in a nursing home in Chocó, explores the illusion of desire, being and wanting to do."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/2-derechos/sin-titulo-yo-queria-ser-maestra/"
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language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-11T14:24:51-05:00"
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Publicado: 4 of October of 2021

# Untitled (I wanted to be a teacher)

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**Photo credits: Reproduced with permission of the Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá – MAMBO**  
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#### María Paulina Pérez

1984  
B/N photography  
100 x 69.7 cm

This photograph, from the series “Various Verbs,” taken in a nursing home in Chocó, explores the illusion of desire, being and wanting to do. An elderly woman with white hair, seated in a chair, challenges us with her gaze. A cushion rests on her lap and behind her appears the phrase “I wanted to be a teacher.” It reflects on childhood dreams and equal opportunities to realise them. For many, the freedom to choose one’s profession is a utopia that only happens in dreams, a chimera between the cushions. This work raises doubts about the true situation of the right to freely choose a profession or trade enshrined in article 26 of the Constitution.

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#### See

[About the Artist](https://www.domestika.org/it/maria_paulina_perez/portfolio)

[About the Artwork](https://ceronresumido.com/X-Bienal-de-Arte-de-bogota-2009-2010)

[Sentencia T-282-2018. Libertad de oficio](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2018/t-282-18.htm)

[Sentencia C-138-19. Titulos de idoneidad](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2019/C-138-19.htm)

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