| by Barbara Pavan | The artistic practice of John Paul Morabito revolutionizes the language of tapestry, reinterpreting it as a medium through which to interrogate the relationship between the sacred, materiality, and the contemporary imaginary. Their approach is one of conscious balance between devotion and disobedience: Morabito draws on the textile tradition in order to overturn its symbolic hierarchies, redirecting the dimension of the sacred into a deeply queer cosmology. The materials that make up their works – cotton, wool, linen, synthetic gold, and glass beads – oscillate between preciousness and artificiality, giving shape to reflections in which the categories of the authentic and the artificial are continuously negotiated.…