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title: "ANNULMENT EXERCISE"
summary: "ANNULMENT EXERCISE. Página institucional de Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional en la Universidad Externado de Colombia. The destitution and social degradation endured by persons with disabilities has become a normalised part of the urban landscape."
description: "The destitution and social degradation endured by persons with disabilities has become a normalised part of the urban landscape."
url: "https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/5-poderes/ejercicio-de-anulacion/"
type: "page"
language: "en-US"
site: "Universidad Externado de Colombia"
section: "Amaranto Museo Virtual de Derecho Constitucional"
updated: "2026-06-12T09:55:14-05:00"
---

Publicado: 10 of November of 2021

# ANNULMENT EXERCISE

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[Gallery 5. Powers](https://www.uexternado.edu.co/en/amaranto-museo-virtual/5-poderes/)

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**Photo credits: Edwin Sánchez**

#### Edwin Sánchez

2006  
Video  
3:28 min

The destitution and social degradation endured by persons with disabilities has become a normalised part of the urban landscape. As a society, we have accepted inhumane practices such as the exploitation of vulnerable individuals. This work confronts such normalisation through an extreme gesture: the artist steps over his own image and covers a disabled person—who cannot free themselves—with a box. Far from nullifying the issue, Annulment Exercise exposes our societal failure and emphasises the importance of Article 47 of the Constitution, which obliges the State to implement policies for the social integration and rehabilitation of this population.  
Ejercicio de anulación no anula, por el contrario, evidencia un mal proceder como sociedad, señala la importancia del artículo 47 de la Constitución que consagra el deber del Estado de adelantar políticas de integración social y rehabilitación de esta población

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#### See

[About the Artwork](https://youtu.be/iMILrmUbSd8)

[About the Artist](https://44sna.com/edwin-sanchez/)

[Sentencia C-824-11 Igualdad personas con limitaciones](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2011/C-824-11.htm)

[Sentencia T-455-18 Derecho de locomocion](https://www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2018/T-455-18.htm)

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