About

Louis Motte Dit Falisse is a designer and photographer. He grew up in Northern Virginia, finished school in London, studied Communication Design at Parsons and stayed in New York for nine years. He is currently on the road.

Belgian and American, he has spent most of his life slightly out of place: American abroad, never quite American at home, not quite Belgian in Belgium. The position suits the work. Nearly everything here is made from a small step back, the vantage of someone who never fully settled into a place and so kept looking at it. A window. A bus stop. A stack of FBI files.

The other constant is the absurd. Camus's The Stranger first suggested that things are what one makes of them; a later moment, when everything known turned out to be only one way of looking, settled it. The personal work takes that seriously by giving overlooked things more attention than they seem to deserve: catalogues that can never be finished, the effort left visible.

For other people, the role is the work around the work. Artists tend to arrive with a world already in their heads. The job is to take that big picture apart into its smallest pieces, then build it back up together, truer to the idea, more achievable and usually larger than it began. Form tends to be theirs. Function is where he comes in. So far that has meant a fine artist's studio, a photographer's archive, a musician's rollout, and a film studio that started as a request for a website.

He collects constantly, a habit from a childhood spent largely inside a computer, and names the collections with care: Interference, Habitation, Attainment in Print. Like most of what follows, they are an exercise in looking, and in language.

Available for design, art direction and building practices around artists. English and French.