South Asian Digital Art Archive

The Midnight Crossing

Artist

A newly married couple leaves Sadarghat at midnight on a small boat, their belongings stacked beside them. Through its interplay of colour, scale, and symbolism, Midnight Departure reframes the familiar iconography of the river in Dhaka as both a site of vulnerability and resilience. It reminds viewers that every quiet crossing carries within it histories of migration and the fragile promise of belonging.

Year Published

2024

Type of Art

Digital Illustration

Theme

Gender

Softwares Used

Procreate

Audience

Everyone

Dhaka Yeah

Dhaka Yeah

Bangladesh

Dhaka Yeah is a Dhaka-based artist collective working at the intersections of digital culture, visual art, and everyday urban experience. Formed by a group of young artists and designers, the collective emerged from the energy of Bangladesh’s capital city, where rapid urbanization, shifting social identities, and digital media are transforming the rhythms of daily life.

Their practice is rooted in playfulness, humour, and critique. Through illustration, memes, animation, and digital interventions, Dhaka Yeah reimagines the city’s visual language—drawing on pop culture, street iconography, and internet aesthetics to create work that resonates across generations. Their projects often remix the familiar with the absurd, amplifying local stories and everyday struggles while engaging global conversations about youth culture, politics, and technology.

By bending the boundaries between art, design, and activism, Dhaka Yeah offers a vibrant portrait of a city—and a region—in motion. Their work underscores how collectives can harness digital tools to speak in multiple registers at once: critical and celebratory, deeply local yet globally connected.

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