Mark Birth | Don’t Kill 2022

Hello. I am Rodion Trofimchenko. I was born in Tiraspol, studied psychoanalysis in St. Petersburg. In 2003, I moved to Japan and obtained a Doctorate degree in Art Theory. I worked as an independent curator. Now, I am developing . I have long been drawn to Aikido and the arts, but the life events and conditions of the pandemic pushed me more towards spiritual practice: yoga and meditation. I began to study dance and put into practice the transformative power of the art. I reconsidered my approach to the gallery, and I decided to expand it to a space where people can, through different practices move to a higher level of existence, transforming themselves. I called it “ Multiplex for Body-Mind Transformation”. It includes five branches: Art, Philosophy/Psychoanalysis, Yoga/Meditation, Ankoku Butoh Dance, and Techno Music. In the fall of 2021 my father passed away. He left me a house in the center of Chisinau. I decided to build the first in it. I got a one-way ticket an