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Nick Jevons and Ross Chapple create imagery for I Hate Models with Chauvet

I Hate Models is the stage name of French techno music producer Guillaume Labadie, whose “Refract: I Hate Models All Night Long” show in January 2026 took place in a 12,000-square meter space at Hall 1, Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. The show kicked off at 10 pm and lasted until the wee hours of the morning.

Enhancing the experience at the spacious venue was a visual production by Nick Jevons and Ross Chapple of Auratecture that flowed with the transcendent music and immersed the room with dynamic lighting displays. Describing the show with its 360 stage and asymmetrical design, Jevons refers to it as a combination of “brutalist asymmetry and Mayan-like scenography”.

“For us, Brutalist asymmetry meant raw mass plus deliberate imbalance”, he details. “It is the look of a structure that is too heavy, too stubborn, or too functional to bother aligning itself perfectly. We wanted to prioritize function over visual comfort. We reference Mayan civilization because of its architecture and how they used sheer size in their structures to show power. The doorways of their temples often represented a cave which were seen as portals to the underworld, while all set in a scene from a movie set.”

A collection of sixty Chauvet Professional Strike Array 4C blinders, placed in the “inner sanctum” of the massive central DJ booth, were instrumental in bringing this vision to life. Visible to the audience only from the booth’s tiered platforms, the fixtures created glowing reflective light of the metal set, which accentuated the brutalist aura around the stage.

“Our vision was to create a chaotic and industrial energy underneath the booth’s walkways”, continues Jevons. “The Strike 4C was the perfect choice for this, as we got the wide, bright throw of a blinder combined with the ability to chase and strobe them at high speeds. The fixtures’ output, combined with their color rendering (RGB + Amber), gave us the ability to apply the overall color palette of the show around the booth through the dense fog and haze. This greatly enhanced the transformative atmosphere in the room.”

Jevons, Chapple and their team, including Jean-Denis Rolland (TD and PM), and rigger S Group Live Event spread strobe lighting throughout the room to accentuate the mood. Their shared vision was to create a “desert-scene, much like you would see in the ‘Dune’ movies, with scorched sunsets, deep reds, sandy CTO’s, and bold open whites”, concludes Jevons.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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