The relationship that creators have with their spaces of creation has long fascinated literature and aesthetics academics. More so when we consider the fact that the place where a book is written has a significant influence on its rhythm, its structure and its content. This is the idea behind the exhibition Cabañas para pensar (Cabins for Thinking), a project by Eduardo Outeiro that has been curated by Alfredo Olmedo and Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego. Through the cabins of eleven essential modern authors, the research delves into and highlights the importance of the organisation of the space during the act of creation. In that instance, their chosen environment is limited, only at first glance, to the most minimal architecture, almost always within nature –sometimes exuberant, other times rough and bare–.
Cabañas para pensar analyses a number of intimate and essential architectures through a collection of photographs, blueprints, models and other documents, like herbaria from each of those locations. The exhibition is a study on the relationship that exists between the desired privacy and the creative processes of philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, composers Edvard Grieg and Gustav Mahler, playwright August Strindberg, writers Knut Hamsun, George Bernard Shaw and Virginia Woolf, poet Dylan Thomas, film director Derek Jarman, and explorer and author Thomas Edward Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia.
