CHAOS an INSTABOOK

Book Description:
The primitive state of everything is a pile of shards. They may seem unrelated. Yet after overcoming the chaos, these pieces will organically be combined as a whole. CHAOS an INSTABOOK is Pen So’s second illustration book series after his ART BOOKLET series. This book features his previous works posted on Instagram, consisting artworks on different themes. The works have been rearranged in order and published in a form of book, allowing readers to explore the relationship between lines in black and white.

Author’s bio:
Pen So is an illustrator, comics artist and graphic designer from Hong Kong. In recent years, he participated in the work of comics creation and novel illustration. In 2013, he attended the Comics Master Class presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre (Comix Home Base). In 2014, he was a member of the elite team in the 3rd Hong Kong Comics Camp and won the First Prize of the illustration group in the 7th Original Comic Competition in 2015. In the same year, he organised the exhibition Memories of My Home, and presented a series of postcards under the same name that recall the sceneries of Hong Kong.

In 2016, he published his first individual illustration Hong Kong Havoc, and won the Best Illustrated Book in Hong Kong Golden Book Awards 2016, Distinguished Publishing Awards – The Best Publishing Concept of the 28th Hong Kong Print Awards 2016, and Publishing Awards in Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards 2017. In 2017, he published Kowloon Walled City Graphic Novel: A Romantic Escape with the original author Yu Yi, and won the Best Mono/ Duotone Colour Book of the 29th Hong Kong Print Awards. His works were serialised in Milk Magazine and City Magazine. In 2019, Pen So published a ghost-reasoning illustration book Trap, and was invited to participate in the group exhibition WALLS – an exhibition commemorating 30 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which held in Belgium and Berlin. In 2021, his works were presented in Amiens Comic Book Rendezvous in France. In the same year, he published After Havoc, a collection of works serialised in magazine's column, expanding the story of Hong Kong Havoc. In 2022, he was invited to participate in a mini solo exhibition Kowloon Walled City at Gallery IYN in Osaka, Japan.