In the context of the event of Simultaneous Openings in Miguel Bombarda on March 22nd, Tincal lab presents the individual exhibition by Ana Pina: “Invisíveis são as linhas que nos prendem.” / “Invisible are the lines that bind us.”
We welcome you for a toast between 4pm and 8pm, with the presence of the artist. To visit until May 14th.


Invisible are the lines that bind us.
Drawing and Jewelry

On paper, the line and the word come together, between contour drawings and fragments of poetry. In jewelry, wires and chains hang the hands cut out of metal.
In reality, invisible are the lines that bind us.
And they all intersect.

The series of drawings was born out of chance and a certain fascination with hands, in 2004. The pretext was simple: to draw the left hand repeatedly. Minimalist line, essential. Sometimes a color of papers, brushes, frequently with words, always spontaneous.
About 20 years later, the drawings are cut out in metal, inspiring pieces of jewelry that are more than figurative repetitions. They allude to the complicity of the pair that touches or moves away, sustaining veins and connections, hiding secrets, imitating gestures, revealing metaphors.

It is they, the hands themselves, that create, write, draw, touch. They are the instrument, the force of expression and source of inspiration.
They make visible the lines that bind us.
And they all intersect.


Ana Pina (Portugal)
Ana Pina was born in 1980, in Porto, Portugal, city where she studied, still lives and works.
She graduates in architecture (FAUP, 2004) and works in an office for a few years, until she founds her passion for contemporary jewelry.
Jeweler and gallerist, she divides her work between the personal brand, launched in 2012, and Tincal lab, that is since 2015 an active contemporary jewelry workshop and exhibition space, featuring curated workshops with invited jewelers, individual and collective exhibitions, by local and international artists.
In her work Ana Pina combines the background in architecture with traditional jewelry techniques and contemporary concepts of design in the creation of jewels with a strong abstract and geometric inspiration.
Unique pieces or limited collections combine elements of a common vocabulary in a game of contrasts and textures, geometric relations and asymmetries, as if they were letters building words inserted in a bigger text.