DREAMGIRLS

Published by: Innen, Zurich, 2021
Softcover, staple bound, 24 pages
13 × 19 cm
Language: English
Condition: Brand New. Completely clean, tight, and pristine; no visible wear.

DREAMGIRLS is a first edition zine by FTL (FUCK THIS LIFE), the New York based underground collective led by artist Weirdo Dave. Published by Innen in Zurich and supported by Carhartt WIP, this 2021 release captures the raw, unfiltered visual language that has defined FTL’s cult influence across countercultural and DIY art circles.

Composed of collages, found imagery, and aggressively honest visual interventions, DREAMGIRLS embodies FTL’s ongoing exploration of beauty, desire, distortion, and the collapse of mass media aesthetics. The zine functions as both document and detritus an artifact of a collective operating between street ephemera, punk Xerox culture, and contemporary critique.

Weirdo Dave’s approach refuses polish or distance; instead, DREAMGIRLS delivers an immediate and chaotic immersion into the world FTL has shaped for over a decade. A sharp, fast, and deliberately imperfect publication, it stands as a continuation of the group’s commitment to a visual language that rejects hierarchy and embraces the visceral.

A compact but powerful object, DREAMGIRLS reflects the enduring relevance of underground print culture in an era of digital oversaturation an urgent reminder that images retain force when they’re made by hand, circulated independently, and meant to provoke.