Shawn Sweeney creates sites of living tension—sculptural environments where material, form, and metaphor converge to reveal the invisible forces shaping perception and being. His work occupies the threshold between structure and dissolution, architecture and corporeality, permanence and decay.
Operating through post-structuralist and surrealist frameworks, Sweeney’s sculptures function as shifting sites of signification, where forms articulate identity, memory, and resilience without resolving into certainty. Each object exists simultaneously as fragment and continuum, a locus in which absence and presence, self and other, coexist.
These sites gesture toward the theological and metaphysical: spaces where instability discloses latent order, and the unseen manifests through form and tension. Sweeney’s work constructs systems of meaning attentive to the forces that persist within material, structure, and being.