A home for loss: Doris Salcedo’s melancholic archives
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article considers the art practice of Bogotá-based sculptor Doris Salcedo, whose work has primarily involved transforming testimonies of political violence in Colombia into abstracted assemblages that bear witness to suffering and loss. Melancholic archives that cling to their capacity to accommodate what remains of loss but also recognise their own structural provisionality, Salcedo’s sculptures and installations represent a process of excavation and archivisation that, by failing to coalesce into sites of closure or redemption, disclose art’s capacity to unsettle our collective access to the past while insisting nevertheless on bearing witness to the suffering of others. Radically reconsidering the archive’s putative status as a ‘home’ for memory, Salcedo’s practice at the same time figures home as an (impossible) archive for memories of loss, terror and displacement.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it