When the Louvre featured the work of Canadian artist Mark Lewis, he created four films and a publication, entitled Inventio. The book comes in a nondescript, clean cover and contains historical stills from cinema, painting, and photography. Like Lewis’ silent slideshow films, this book shows deliberately ordered images. His source material comes from the likes of Francois Truffaut, Jacques Tati, Jan Van Eyck, and Marcel Duchamp. To interweave these seemingly disparate sources, Lewis focuses on images of travel. The book opens with images from the Lumière brothers’ fifty-second film L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, in which a train appears to be moving toward the viewer. According to an urban legend, the first screening of this film made the train appear so realistic that everyone ran to the back of the theater in terror, scared they would be run over. Lewis has these ideas in mind, questioning the realism of art. In fact, many images seem conscious of their own reproduction. Movie stills appear grainy, as if photographed from a television set. A reproduction of a Stefano di Giovanni painting is followed by a still from Mark Lewis’ own film, in which tourists are taking photos of the same painting. Inventio looks at the urban landscape through these varied mediums, and expresses a continued sense of awe in the moving image.