Reliquaries - literally 'leftovers' - are worshiped and glorified by the faithful in many religions. Most often, the relics are bone remnants of 'saints', or items and clothing that they owned or wore. Even objects that only came close to important reliquaries can be worshiped by the faithful themselves. The veneration of the reliquaries, which are also said to work miracles, was of great importance in Christianity, especially in the Middle Ages. Important relics were set in valuable and precious shrines made of gold, silver, ivory and adorned with gemstones. The sculpture by Marek Kvetán resembles such a reliquary. It is a forearm with ulna and spoke and the bones of one hand, which is adorned in a gaudy, kitsch fashion with glittering stones. Set up in a silver shimmering holder, the hand points upwards.
One of the most famous hands in Western iconography can be found in the ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Between 1508 and 1512, the Florentine artist Michelangelo Bunoarroti also painted the ceiling frescoes there. The scenes from the first Book of Moses, Genesis, which are shown there on the ceiling, also include the creation of men, which Michelangelo depicts visually in a hint of a finger touch between God the Father and Adam, It is precisely this moment that the title of the small sculpture by Marek Kvetan obviously describes 'Touch of Creator'. It was produced using one of the most advanced technologies for creation, a digititalised program for a 3D printer.