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Prime directive: Star Trek (2025) Original Acrylic Painting by Dean Anthony Brink
50 x 40 x 2cm (unframed) / 50 x 40cm (actual image size)
£1,098.38
Original artwork description
The TV series Star Trek (1966–1969) through Strange New Worlds (2022–present) are known for meeting the challenges of evolving postcolonial dynamics and flickering ethereal borders on the cusp of unfinished and recurrent political conflicts around the world. The “Prime Directive” ethos of “non-interference” in Star Trek articulates a working model for not only restraining postcolonial residual power configurations and infrastructures but the enabling – through this very recognition of the power to engage in restraint and tolerance of difference – a reconceptualization of colonial hubris itself.
This work was included in a section of a larger documenta exhibit in 2025, gathering 11 of my works under the title “Postcolonial Noninterference Directive” within The Sixth Fuel Factory Documenta 2025: Tracing the Origin of the Sixth Fuel Factory along the Touqian River, NYCU Library, curated by Wendy Lai (June 2, 2025 – July 19, 2025).
Materials used:
Acrylic, modeling paste, ink, charcoal on canvas
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 50 x 40 x 2cm (unframed) / 50 x 40cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
Tags:
#acrylic painting#star trek#space exploration#space landscape#prime directive#shuttle craft
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Original artwork description
The TV series Star Trek (1966–1969) through Strange New Worlds (2022–present) are known for meeting the challenges of evolving postcolonial dynamics and flickering ethereal borders on the cusp of unfinished and recurrent political conflicts around the world. The “Prime Directive” ethos of “non-interference” in Star Trek articulates a working model for not only restraining postcolonial residual power configurations and infrastructures but the enabling – through this very recognition of the power to engage in restraint and tolerance of difference – a reconceptualization of colonial hubris itself.
This work was included in a section of a larger documenta exhibit in 2025, gathering 11 of my works under the title “Postcolonial Noninterference Directive” within The Sixth Fuel Factory Documenta 2025: Tracing the Origin of the Sixth Fuel Factory along the Touqian River, NYCU Library, curated by Wendy Lai (June 2, 2025 – July 19, 2025).
Materials used:
Acrylic, modeling paste, ink, charcoal on canvas
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 50 x 40 x 2cm (unframed) / 50 x 40cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the back
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
Tags:
#acrylic painting#star trek#space exploration#space landscape#prime directive#shuttle craft