"In the world community of consumerism triumph artists have lost their role of theine in tea and salt  of the earth. They became just a part of the buy-and-sell machine, they stopped to take care of the function of truth, reflecting problems and pointing at value marks. Modern art has stopped resisting swampy kitsch of the masses, it plays the role of the life’s mawkish embellishment, or of an exotic hot spice, or a drug, carrying off to dreaming.
The genre of Irina Dudina’s political mats doesn’t have any analog. Some people look at them and think of pictures with Mitki’s texts and Olga Florenskaya’s textiles, others remember Irina Valdron’s collages, the third recollect “Okna ROSTa” and Mayakovsky’s posters, the fourth can see in Dudina’s mat posters a satirical allusion to Soviet postcards. But what Dudina is doing is something innovative. There we have Mitki’s exquisite banter, pathos of Mayakovsky and Soviet postcards, beautiful colors and provocation of Valdron. But as a starting point Irina Dudina chooses not the imitation of predecessors, but what the reality dictates her.. As the mats are devoid of commercial vector, of any wish to fit fashionable, market art, supported by modern sockdolagers of art market, they are so free, bold, “folk” in the best sense of this word. There is something in them, related to amateur painting, to proverbs and sayings, to advertising and PR of opinion of the silent, but reflective people. The materials used to make the “mats” are fabrics produced by Russian factories and worn clothes of Russian people. We can see a special conceptual refinement in it, but as opposed to the purposely invented “conceptual art”, Irina’s “mats” appear not because of some intention, but on the basis of convenience. They are easy to keep, to carry, to exhibit, they can be quickly paned to give a quick reaction to hot topics, they can be made of free-of-charge materials".