Duplex is proud to present Study 4: Collateral, a solo exhibition of Sophia Giovannitti’s work. Collateral will open off-site on September 24 at P.P.O.W. in Tribeca, where a new performance and film from Giovannitii will be on view. The exhibition at Duplex will open the following day - Sunday, September 25 - in Chinatown, where artworks and ephemera related to Giovannitti’s performance and conceptual work will be on view through October 16, 2022. Continuing her ongoing series of conceptual studies - wherein the process of value production by the artist and its attendant negotiations is itself the work - Sophia Giovannitti will mount her second solo show at Duplex, Study 4: Collateral. In her first show largely composed of wall work and objects, Giovannitti moves focus away from an erotic and opaque delineation of space, and toward clean and transparent transaction, locating into a traditional register her attempted excavation and transgression of the prescribed relationship between artist and: collector, dealer, gallerist, voyeur, viewer. To her mind, all collectible work functions as a form of collateral to the collector: a stand-in for what one earnestly hopes to collect on in the end, whether sex, social access, cultural capital, or increased profit.