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The exhibition is named after a couple of collectors, Paul and Bunny Mellon. In her work, Peeters often uses titles of paintings by famous artists, such as “Waiting Woman” (after George Minne) or “Anglaise à la fenêtre” (after Courbet). It is out of love and admiration for these artists that she appropriates their titles or subjects. Raymond Carver frequently referred to Chekhov in his work, just as Tchaikovsky referred to Beethoven, describing it as “I may do that because I love him,” or as Peeters translates this as “right-of-love”: “I love it, and therefore it is mine.” Peeters uses the …