P·P·O·W is pleased to host the offsite opening of Sophia Giovannitti’s Study 4: Collateral, showcasing the artist’s new film, A Monopoly on Violence at 390 Broadway, and new performance piece, A Machine, in Cortlandt Alley from 10am-8pm Saturday, September 24. @sophiaexalted is a conceptual artist based in New York. She studies the commodification of the parts of ourselves we hold dear, positing, from a materialist perspective, that there is no way out but through. Through her ongoing series of performance-based studies, beginning with Untitled (Incall), executed at Recess from May–June 2021, and continuing with Incall: Study 2; Contract, a solo show at @duplex.nyc from March–April 2022, she seeks to trouble and re-choreograph the opaque systems of eroticized exchange facilitating value extraction from artists by those in positions of material and cultural power. Her first film, In Heaven: An Alternate Reality Game, premiered at the Athens Biennale in September 2021; her second, Dirty Calculations, premiered at Cryptographic Art in December 2021. Her first book, Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex, is forthcoming from Verso in 2023. Her work exists in the through-space of sale, scam, and reflection, allowing new forms of value production to occur.