Untitled (2001) forms part of Dirk Skreber’s ‘disaster series’. The works aim to transform incidents of catastrophe and accident into emblems of aesthetic beauty, awesome in their outcome and actuality. The high-gloss paintings allude to media imagery and photography: powerful in their realistic quality and immediacy. Exploring with the potential of the ‘hyperreal’, the artist successfully merges epic subject matter with a detached formalism. The surfaces are impenetrable yet intimate, involving the viewer without demanding or allowing their participation. Untitled (2001) captures a critical fragment of time and renders it eternal, frozen in expectation and anticipation.