Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to present Snow,Mark Lewis’ fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Snowfeatures films spanning Lewis’ career from 2002-2026, and includes Nathan Phillips Square, A Winter’s Night, Skating,first shown in his presentation for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennial. The selection of films in this exhibition offers a retrospective glimpse of the formal investigations that have shaped Lewis’ career.

In his foreword to the December 2020 issue of Afterall—of which Lewis was co-founder and director—he writes about the experience of waking up to discover that the world has been carpeted in a deep layer of snow. “Many of the usual markings, divisions between spaces, recognisable signs of life were gone. In this way there had been a kind of magical defamiliarization of the earth and all its formal, social and political consequence. But in some ways, many things still looked the same—unfamiliar while remaining somewhat familiar.”1 While Lewis here is…