120 Days of Sodom

Nan Ke Gallery is pleased to announce that the exhibition project The 120 Days of Sodom will open on January 10, 2026. The exhibition brings together works by artists Gaojie Chen, Lindong Duan, Yujian Guo, Michael Gao, Dehua Hou, Tianyu Huang, Xiaozhou Liao, Xipeng Qiu, Muhan Wu, Lingrou Xie, and Pengfei Zai. Within the exhibition’s thematic framework, these artists are connected through a shared engagement with classical paradigms—yet it is precisely within the subtle fissures of these inherited forms that human desire and impulse awaken, generating a sharp and compelling tension.

The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome) is a long-form novel written by Marquis de Sade in 1785 during his imprisonment in the Bastille. Notorious for its violent and seemingly vulgar narrative, the work stands in stark contrast to the rationalism of the Enlightenment...