These monumental pieces provocatively appropriate the image of the screw as a phallic symbol of oppression — as in the expression «being screwed» — and evoke ominous power. (newmuseum.org)
The narrative that is art, then, has this ominous power to reveal conscious reality and also to point beyond it. (religion-online.org)
The ominous power of propaganda screams like this throughout the dimly - lit exhibition, although the curators have been careful to approach it as a «neutral» process of communicating information. (totalpolitics.com)