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title: "My House My Body, The House with a Porch and Wood-Burning Stove"
summary: "My House My Body, The House with a Porch and Wood-Burning Stove. Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. This small roofless house, without windows, made of neatly arranged bricks and painted white and blue, is one of nine models representing the before, during, and after of forced displacement in Colombia."
description: "This small roofless house, without windows, made of neatly arranged bricks and painted white and blue, is one of nine models representing the before, during, and after of forced displacement in Colombia."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/3-territorio/la-casa-con-zaguan-y-fogon-de-lena/"
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language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2021-11-21T18:54:35-05:00"
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Publicado: 11 of October of 2021

# My House My Body, The House with a Porch and Wood-Burning Stove

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[Gallery 3. Territory](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/3-territorio/)

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**Photo credits: Oscar Moreno**  
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#### Oscar Moreno Escárraga, Ernesto Plaza y Gerlys Sánchez

2008-2012  
Sculpture  
Dimensiones: 40 x 40 x 15 cm

This small roofless house, without windows, made of neatly arranged bricks and painted white and blue, is one of nine models representing the before, during, and after of forced displacement in Colombia. The artist worked with three families—indigenous, Afro-descendant, and rural peasants in exile—who rebuilt their lives and dream homes through these spaces. The work calls attention to Article 51 of the Constitution, which recognises the right to decent housing, especially amid conflict and violence that have perpetuated rural and urban displacement due to the State’s ineffectiveness.

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#### See

[About the Artist](https://www.utadeo.edu.co/es/person/66/Artes-y-Fotograf%C3%ADa)

[About the Artwork](https://issuu.com/arttextum/docs/arttextum-oscar-moreno-territorio-y)

[Sentencia C-494-16 Desplazamiento forzado](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2016/C-494-16.htm)

[Sentencia T-247-2018 Vivienda digna y desplazamiento forzado](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2018/t-247-18.htm)

[Return to room 3. Territory](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/3-territorio/)

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