- You could think that it would only be watercolor since Lars Lerin sat in the jury, but it did not! It's fun to see that photography is back this year, "says Mårten Castenfors, director of Liljevalch's Art Hall, to the Culture News.

Several photographers have been selected for this year's spring salon at Liljevalchs in Stockholm - for example Erik Holmstedt, who for decades has documented the disappearing society in Malmberget where he himself grew up.

- I am interested in the ongoing movement: the changes, how people react and what happens to the environments. There is great value in the fact that the images are preserved in the environments that are now gone and that will disappear in the future, says Erik Holmstedt.

Living sculpture eats tea and sugar

Interest in crafts and sculpture also continues this year. It's everything from wood, textiles, paper, metal, ceramics, to combinations - and illusions. Like Oktawian Bohdziewicz's number plates in porcelain, or Anna Ting Moller's organic sculpture, unpleasant in its meatiness. Even more unpleasant when you understand that the work is alive.

- By feeding the bacterial culture with tea and sugar, the material grows. I can feel that there is a conflict between the outer and the inner that can be difficult to describe, but that the feeling is still very strong ... to try to control an uncontrollable body, says Anna Ting Möller.

Castles became works of art

Most odd this year is perhaps a framed, half-scratched pulley. Twice a million have been scrapped.

- The idea is that there should be no glass on it. You should be able to go there and get the urge to scratch ... can you stay? You can win a million, so the price is set at one million. Then there are two TV boxes too so you can actually win even more - so it's just to hit, says artist Rikard Agrenius.