The skyline is like skin
Exhibition by Alexandra Roozen & Esther Jiskoot
You are cordially invited to the festive opening of the duo exhibition by Alexandra Roozen & Esther Jiskoot
Opening
Saturday September 13, 2025
3 – 5 PM
Address
NL=US Gallery
Mauritsweg 55B, 3012 JX, Rotterdam
This exhibition runs until 19 October, 2025
Exhibition statement
NL=US Gallery opens this season with works by Alexandra Roozen and Esther Jiskoot. Their visual languages converge around themes such as light, materiality, and energy—where manual process plays a vital role. For both artists, the act of making is essential: its meditative, repetitive nature becomes a gateway to a spiritual layer of meaning and the mysterious realm of creativity.
In ‘The skyline is like skin’, the artists explore the liminal space between the physical world and the mind, bringing together visual contrasts such as harmony and tension, distance and closeness, light and darkness. With a deep appreciation for the power of beauty, this exhibition invites contemplation and a journey into something collective, ancestral, and profoundly human.
Alexandra Roozen works with pencil on paper, exploring stillness, slowness, and spatiality—both in the act of making and in the viewer’s experience. In her recent work, the meaning of the drawn surface takes center stage. At times suggestive, it infuses forms with softness, lightness, and sensuality. At other times, it becomes literal: transforming the surface into a rough, black texture that absorbs all light and emphasizes the physicality of drawing itself.
Esther Jiskoot, driven by an interest in mechanisms of survival, coping, and avoidance, creates intimate and sensuous sculptures that move along the edges of the body, abstraction, and instruments. Her work evokes ideas of vulnerability, chargers, energy, and missions for vitalism. These forms reveal a more primal, instinctive reality. They resonate on an intuitive level, drawing on an intrinsic understanding that transcends language and logic. Light and reflection—often present in her work—continue to play a key role in her latest pieces.