Joost de Munnik & Ruud van den Eijnden

Joost de Munnik and Ruud van den Eijnden built this piece around something that was already running. A clock movement from a family heirloom — brass, worn, still keeping time — became the point from which everything else was measured: the oak, the walnut uprights, the cone that holds a bonsai above a floor it never touches.

De Munnik works as a furniture maker; van den Eijnden brings the specialist's hand for mechanisms that have outlived their first owners. The collaboration ran to 237 hours. They keep the figure, because in this piece duration is not overhead but subject.

They present through SPoT Den Haag, a platform where students and alumni show work for four weeks while continuing to work in their own workshops — neither gallery nor shop. At Maison d'Artiste, SPoT appears as a guest.

An entrance piece is the most transitional object in a house. It is the last surface touched on the way out and the first on the way back — where a household leaves its keys, its post, and its estimate of how late it already is.

On the sixth floor, in rooms built for living but not yet lived in, the work proposes a threshold the architecture does not provide. A clock ticks inside it. A bonsai holds a slower measure against it. The two are made to share one span of oak, and neither wins.

Where shall we meet, and at what time. The makers name this as the question the piece was built from. It is a domestic question, asked here in rooms that have not yet decided whose home they are.