Fabrice Hybert's TV Studio at the 1997 Venice Biennale

For the 1997 Venice Biennale, French artist Fabrice Hybert transformed the French pavilion—a replica of 18th-century follies—into a television production studio. At a time when cable and digital networks were rendering terrestrial TV obsolete, Hybert aimed to expose television's unseen margins: lost moments, errors, and sounds where the medium inadvertently reveals more about itself than under the supposed efficiency of professional broadcasters. The project critiqued the conventions of television by turning the pavilion into a live studio, producing content that highlighted the gaps and glitches of the medium.