Under the tab with frequently asked questions on Wall Street's website, you can see "what kind of art will it be?".
The answer reads, among other things: "Politically neutral" - an answer that made Svenska Dagbladet's cultural journalist Anders Rydell react.
- I mean that the concept of "political neutrality" is actually impossible to apply to public art.
Public art can be political in so many different ways and it can also be interpreted in retrospect in a political way.
It is not something that politics should go in and control, he says to Kulturnyheterna.
Since Anders Rydell wrote about the increase, Wall Street's website has been given a clarification stating that the project will be run politically neutral.
"Mistake"
- It was a mistake, it was a misunderstanding on our part.
We must correct that.
The idea was not the specific art but the process.
It is important that all municipalities can participate regardless of political majority, says Katarina Wåhlin Alm, city development director in Nacka.
Anders Rydell believes that formulations about "happy" or "neutral" art risk changing public art fundamentally.
- I think it is dangerous and I am afraid that it will also spread to other municipalities and other politicians who see that "this is how we should be able to control and control public art".
Received criticism already in 2019
The answer to unfortunate formulations was given by Nacka as early as 2019 when Wall Street was criticized for not keeping politics at arm's length from art.
The criticism came from art critics, the opposition and the artists' national association, KRO.
Prior to the festival, guidelines had been set up that art should not be socially critical, rebellious or aggressive.
"An advertising assignment - Not free art", said the opinion from KRO.
Wall street was held for the first time in Nacka 2019. Now they want to take the concept to the entire county in 2022 under the name Wall street Stockholm.