Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Djinns”, Cneai, Chatou, May 28-September 18, 2005. Here version in English with brown cloth cover. In the Koran and Muslim legends, Djinns are intelligent, evil spirits who appear in various forms to inspire and torment mankind. Tatiana Trouvé transforms the Cneai into a ghost house, suggesting a dreamlike journey in which we move from room to room in semi-darkness, discovering spaces, cells, works of art and lures used to charm the spirits of the place. At its heart, Tatiana Trouvé’s book is made up of ghost pages, varnished collages on black paper, and black mirrors that rest the gaze. It unfurls mental apparitions composed of drawings, heterogeneous fragments of muzzles, kennels, drummer seats, climbing equipment, wire mesh and human prostheses, where precise materials such as leather, velvet and metal cohabit. The construction of the book’s autonomous body continues the fantastic quest for a psychic movement that disintegrates to the rhythm of a fable by Austrian author Arno Geiger and a dialogue between Tatiana Trouvé and Hans-Ulrich Obrist.