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Balbina and the pain of unsuccessful – “Father’s Day”
With her new song “Father’s Day”, Balbina wants to open a particularly vulnerable chapter in her work. She put it as a musical memorial to a father who was never really part of her life – an obituary without a past. The processing of an unprecedented relationship, the unsatisfied longing for bond. A form of grief that is evident from every social norm because it knows no concrete memories.
The piece is accompanied by a withdrawn music video. Balbina presents itself puristic. Simply dressed, without visual staging. Your charisma still remains unmistakable.
At her side, Maeckes, who was not musically involved, is at her side, but visually represents a key figure. He embodies her second ego. Her twin brother, quasi “an echo of yourself”. At the same time a projection surface for the absent father.
Balbina – “Father’s Day”
Balbina herself took over the direction, as with many of her videos. She was supported by the visual artist Sebastian Sellner, whose photographic language makes the nuances visible: the unspoken, the emptiness, the emotional vacuum. The scenery is dark, almost quiet, a melancholic landscape.
“Father’s Day” sees Balbina as a cinematic poem about loneliness, about waiting for someone who never came. And about the realization that some absences never pass. A work that transforms pain into art that transfers personal in something general.