From the exhibition catalogue: Anait, Retrospective 1966-1979
This exhibition is the work of an artist who is both student and teacher of holography - not in the formal sense of either, but in the creative sense of both. This exhibition is the record of her learning process and her index of possibilities, a dictionary of terms and a lexicon for the artistic applications of the medium - an individual dialect by Anait within the language of holography.
Anait has produced a body of work which both questions and answers what can be done in holography. These are controlled experiments where discovery becomes a permanent performance of the process of technology into poetry, where form and content merge, and medium and message are one. It is a body of work full of incongruities and rich with contrasts, made kinetic by the very polarity of its imagery, and balanced by the tension of its opposing forces. And it has been done on Anait’s terms.
She has created organic work through a highly structured medium. She works spontaneously with a process that is intractible and achieves the subtlest control of color within a largely monochromatic palette. And she proceeds with assurance and purpose in an area wholly unfamiliar and largely uncharted. (“We do not even know what we do not know”). Anait deals with surface in a context of volume, with texture in a medium made of light. She creates motion through quiescence, and abstraction from reality. Her work is both traditional and highly experimental, sophisticated and naive, striking and fragile. And through the reality of her illusions, she tests the illusion of our reality.
Rosemary Jackson
Director
Museum of Holography
February, 1979