‘Her ‘Games of Remembering’

“Cigarette, Candles, Fireworks, Swan’’ (oil), by Mariel Capanna, in her show “Giornata,’’ at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., through Jan. 25, 2026.

The museum says:

“Mariel Capanna (b. 1988, Philadelphia, where she lives and works) plays what she calls ‘games of remembering’ as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions that are at once jubilant and wistful.’’