Zipp’s work is infused with a romanticism of history: a wilful appropriation of styles and ideas, revisited, churned over, and mutated for contemporary experimentation. Resurrecting defunct concepts, and invigorating them with new usage, Zipp creates a parallel world envisioning a precarious future-fiction based on revisionist past. Schwartze Ballons is a nine-part installation comprised of paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Central to the piece is a large black structure. Ominous and strange, its ballooning form connotes a malevolent technology, stealth-like in its dead weight. The accompanying abstract drawings suggest scientific inventions that are equally playful and sinister. Painted portraits complete the scene with b-movie flair: dead zombie-like leaders with rivets for eyes add a subtext of evil, both spellbinding and humorous.