Reflekt RESIDENCY

We are honoered to welcome Inu Bere to Berlin for a 3-months stay within the REFLEKT residency programme by Goethe-Institut Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines together with SAVVY Contemporary and TanzFaktur for artists and cultural practitioners from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste. 

Inu shared with us his expectations for the residency:
"As a young emerging artist, coming from a country like Timor-Leste with still growing arts institutions, infrastructures and actions, I believe that this residency will change my life as an artist and as a person seeking knowledge in culture. I believe that with the residency I will gain new experiences and I will deepen my concepts and my work by connecting and exchanging with other artists. I have faith that this residency can place me on the international art scene, as a Timorese artist, not only as a Timorese artist who makes Timorese art, but as a Timorese artist who makes art. Because I believe in what we have, in our artists. We have something to offer to the world of art and the world in general."

Inu Bere is the artist name of Sinorino Bere de Jesus, who comes from Aileu, a municipality in the interior of Timor-Leste. He is an emerging contemporary artist who graduated from the University of Vale do Paraíba, in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, with a full degree in Visual Arts. Inu works in the field of engraving, painting, installation, sculpture and performance. He began his artistic career in 2012, participating in several national and international exhibitions, in Portugal, Macau, Japan, Brazil and Timor-Leste. Since 2012 he has been an active member of Projeto Montanha, a non-governmental organization, working in the area of art, education and tourism with the intention of training young Timorese people. Today Inu Bere, is the lead person responsible for Projeto Montanha. Inu always seeks to reflect in his works, his origins, culture, but also the new cultures he has acquired over time. His artistic works deal with political, philosophical, religious themes and also deal with culture and identity. He navigates between two worlds, of good and evil, of day and night, of old culture and new culture, of colonization and decolonization, of freedom and non-freedom. In his works, Inu offers intimate reflections of everyday life to the viewer.