"Ô Quatrième", installation view, Les églises, Contemporary Art Center, Chelles, France 2012 © Aurélien Mole
Video, mechanical sculpture and floor piece

"Ô Quatrième", installation views, Les églises, Contemporary Art Center, Chelles, France 2012 © Aurélien Mole
8 boxes containing a series of objects, floor piece

O Quatrième, 2012
17 min
Colour video, HD, stéréo

Co-production Les Eglises, centre d’art de Chelles, support Conseil Régional Nord Pas de Calais, France

"O Quatrième" takes place in a convent in Paris where Bak spent some time at the end of 2011. Through this new film the artist transcribes her perception of the nuns' everyday life, traditions and hobbies while evoking the afterlife. She creates a dialogue with this religious congregation and its devotion to the "last passing", which is represented and symbolized in the film by the sisters' physical move to the top floor of the convent as the years pass and so they can be closer to Heaven…
Bak uses a number of objects found in the nuns' rooms to create the sound-effects in the film.