Untitled (Defaced Jewish Cemetery; Strasbourg, France; December 14, 2018), 2019.
Charcoal on mounted paper,
Image 96 x 144 inches (243.8 x 365.8 cm), Frame 101 7/8 x 149 7/8 inches (258.8 x 380.7 cm).
The Jewish cemetery in Herrlisheim, north of Strasbourg, France. 37 tombstones and a monument to Holocaust victims had been defaced with swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti.
Untitled (Refugees Moonbird Sighting, Mediterranean Sea; May 5, 2017), 2019.
Charcoal on mounted paper,
Image 97 x 120 inches (246.4 x 304.8 cm), Frame 102 7/8 x 125 7/8 inches (261.3 x 319.7 cm).
A picture taken from the moonbird aircraft of the German NGO Sea-Watch shows the migrant rescue operations of another NGO working in the Mediterranean sea on May 5, 2017.
Untitled (Marching Soldiers; (Party Foundation Day) Pyongyang, North Korea; October 10, 2018), 2019.
Charcoal on mounted paper,
Image 81 1/2 x 140 inches (207 x 355.6 cm), Frame 87 3/8 x 145 7/8 inches (221.9 x 370.5 cm).
North Korean soldiers in historic uniforms march during a parade on the Kim Il Sung Square, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared that his country was ready to stand up to any threat posed by the United States as he spoke at a lavish military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the North's ruling party and trumpet his third-generation leadership.
Untitled (Caravan; Arriaga, Mexico; October 27, 2018), 2019.
Charcoal on mounted paper,
Image 97 x 132 inches (246.4 x 335.3 cm), Frame 102 7/8 x 137 7/8 inches (261.3 x 350.2 cm).
A caravan of thousands of migrants from Central America, en route to the United States, makes its way to San Pedro Tapanatepec from Arriaga.
Untitled (Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi; Istanbul, Turkey; October 2, 2018), 2019.
Charcoal on mounted paper,
Image 87 1/2 x 120 inches (222.3 x 304.8 cm), Frame 93 3/8 x 125 7/8 inches (237.2 x 319.7 cm).
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian dissident, author, columnist for The Washington Post, and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was assassinated at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government.
Untitled (Statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee Covered; Charlottesville, Virginia; August 12, 2017), 2018.
Charcoal on mounted paper,
Image 120 x 95 1/4 inches (304.8 x 241.9 cm), Frame 125 1/4 x 100 1/2 inches (318.1 x 255.3 cm).
On August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, a group of white nationalists gathered in protest of the proposed removal of a monument to Robert E. Lee, the top Confederate general, still revered by many Americans. The rally quickly escalated and violence broke out amongst white nationalists and counter protesters, leading to 34 injuries and one woman dead, sparking a US-wide movement calling for the removal of confederate monuments, of which there are hundreds. Since then, a dozen have been dismantled, but the one Longo depicts remains standing, re-revealed after a court ruling.
Untitled (State of the Union; Washington, D.C., USA; February 5, 2019), 2019.
Charcoal on mounted paper,
Image 96 x 146 inches (243.8 x 370.8 cm), Frame 101 7/8 x 151 7/8 inches (258.8 x 385.8 cm).
At President Trump’s second State of the Union address, female members of the 116th Congress, dressed in white to reference the suffragette movement. A hundred and three women are serving in the House of Representatives, which makes this Congress the most female in history, as well as the most diverse.
Untitled (Russian Air Strike; Syria, 2015), 2017.
Charcoal on mounted paper,
Image 97 x 140 1/16 inches (246.4 x 355.8 cm), Frame 102 5/8 x 145 7/8 inches (260.7 x 370.5 cm).
Longo’s drawing of a Russian air strike on farmland in Syria in 2017 expresses the distance inherent to our conception of war in America. The work is a graphic abstraction of war, one void of bodies.