ANTWERP.- The Place of No Roads is the visual report the Finnish photographer Ville Lenkkeri (°1972) made during his stay in the ghost town of Pyramiden. This abandoned Russian settlement, situated on the arctic Svalbard archipelago, was of seminal importance during the former Soviet regime because of its large coal mine. Miners and their families were sent to this remote, inhospitable site for a fixed period of two years. Pyramiden had an infrastructure like any other village, – schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, party halls –the only difference being that there were no roads that led to the settlement and that there was no money in circulation. The workers received their pay only upon completion of the contract. For Lenkkeri, the lost and isolated existence at Pyramiden evokes the dream of a socialist Utopia, which was carried by a close community that set great store by solidarity and equality. It is this social ideal which Lenkkeri sets out to explore through his images