Flung pickle token: artist asks $10,000 for McDonald’s burger ingredient

Matthew Griffin’s ‘Pickle’, 2022, an artwork exhibited in Auckland that comes from a McDonald’s cheeseburger Photograph: Courtesy of the Matthew Griffin and Fine Arts, Sydney.

A NZ$10,000 artwork consisting of a single slice of pickle plucked from a McDonald’s cheeseburger and flung on to the ceiling of an Auckland art gallery is a deliberately “provocative gesture” designed to question what has value, the artist’s gallery says.

The work, titled Pickle, belongs to Sydney-based Australian artist Matthew Griffin, and is one of four new works in Fine Arts, Sydney’s exhibition in Auckland hosted at Michael Lett Gallery.