| A Pound of Flesh for 50p | |
| Artist: | Alex Chinneck |
| Type: | Sculpture |
| Material: | Paraffin wax |
| Subject: | House |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | London, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates: | 51.5046°N -0.0936°W |
| Mapframe: | yes |
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
A Pound of Flesh for 50p, also known as Melting House, was a temporary outdoor sculpture by artist Alex Chinneck, located in London, England. Part of the city's Merge Festival, the two-storey house sculpture was constructed from 8,000 paraffin wax bricks and it was designed to melt with assistance from a heating apparatus over the course of the installation.[1] It was displayed from 26 September to 18 November 2014, at 40 Southwark Street, SE1 9HP,[2] the structure's roof being gradually lowered as the wax melted. After it had been reduced to "a pile of hardened goo", the sculpture was removed.[3]