About Share

SHARE (2019–ongoing) is a series of 100 small-scale bronze text installations by Mexico City-based artist and Black Cube Fellow, Anuar Maauad. Inconspicuously placed on building facades throughout the Denver area, each sculptural phrase reads “To share is precious, pure, and fair”—a lyric from prolific American singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye’s “I Want You” (1976).

Each two-inch tall letter of every 28-letter phrase was hand-cut by workers at a bronze foundry in Mexico City. The design of the letters is based on the thick, geometric, slab serif font and golden hue of New York City’s infamous Trump Tower signage. The production and debut of SHARE took place during Donald Trump’s presidential term (2016–2020), in which the president wielded policies and rhetoric over a border wall, trade, asylum, and immigration to inflame the public—further complicating U.S.-Mexico relations.

Contrary to the divisive Trump brand, Maauad’s text installations are approachable in size and offer an uplifting message of reciprocity and kindness. In line with the spirit of generosity, the artworks remain as gifts to participants who agreed to publicly display them for the duration of at least one year. Locations include residences, businesses, coffee shops, nonprofit organizations, offices, fences, and more.

We invite you to explore select works from SHARE using this map. Happy searching!

Share Locations
1
Latino Cultural Arts Center
2701 W Colfax Ave
2
Hijos del Sol
2715 W 8th Ave
3
LN House (next to MCA)
1465 Delgany St
Next to MCA!
4
Emmanuel Art Gallery
1205 10th St Plaza
Take a look inside, above the door.
5
David B. Smith Gallery
1543 Wazee St, Ste A
Look up! Located above the door.
6
CU Denver Experience Gallery
1025 13th St
7
Museo de las Americas
861 Santa Fe Drive
8
Ellen Bruss Design
2500 Walnut St #401
9
RedLine Contemporary Art Center
2350 Arapahoe St
Look up! Located at the top of the building.
10
Pon Pon / Lane Meyer Projects
2528 Walnut St
11
Port Side
2500 Larimer St #103
12
Sie FilmCenter
2510 E Colfax Ave

Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum engages with sites that possess intertwining past, present, and future histories. Our work in the U.S. and beyond takes place on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of Indigenous peoples, to whom we are indebted in the wake of settler colonialism’s harms. We acknowledge that SHARE, located throughout the Denver Metro Area, is dispersed on land that is the ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Ute Nations and peoples. This region was also a place of trade, gathering, and healing for other Native Nations. We respect and honor the many Indigenous peoples still connected to where we gather.

To expand the life of this statement, which is neither complete nor enough on its own, Black Cube commits to donating 10% of our shop proceeds to the Denver Indian Center, which supports the urban American Indian and Alaska Native community of the Denver Metro Area.

The select sites listed here are on publicly-viewable property. Please take care and respect our neighbors. Due to placement and size, works may be difficult to spot.