Chinese artist Hua Yong's solo exhibition "Economic Pop" being held at the Thread Gallery at Beijing's 798 Art District, showcases the artist's personal reflections on the economic crisis.

Among the works are paintings and installations with the subjects of money, the stock market and fi nancial events of the past year.

"Hua Yong himself lost a considerable amount of money in the crisis. The occasion gave him a chance to study the presuppositions of economic lunacy," explained Peng Feng, curator of the exhibition.

In the installation "This is the Question," the artist has crafted a spatial equivalent of the thrilling confusion and anxiety that defines life as a gambler in the market, with bleak light streaming through a starshaped hole in the ceiling. On the walls a graph refl ects the artist's turbulent investments, the spikes of profi t and loss, together with newspaper articles detailing the market's temperature and behavior. The exhibition ends till December 31.