Booms and Busts

‘Booms and Busts’ focuses squarely on the last decade of financial upheaval in global markets, addressing artworks that highlight and subvert some of the prevailing orthodoxies in contemporary financial discourse, from the taken-for-granted associations between market undulations and the sublime landscapes of the natural world, to the purposefully opaque jargon surrounding the derivative instruments implicated in the ‘credit crunch’, to the dominant ideology of ‘socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor’.