ABSTRACT
Folk art in India, as expressive practices of marginalised communities, has always been excluded from virtuosity of classical and contemporary art. Their potential to comment on aspects and life-worlds beyond the local, the ritual, and the sensorial still awaits serious theoretical consideration. This chapter uses a painting Covid-19 Stories, made by a young folk artist in contemporary India to appreciate the way in which knowledge about corona virus and the experience of the virus are both interrogated and re-presented. Covid-19 has changed the world and the way it is conceived, thought of, spoken about, and imagined. This chapter draws attention to way myriad locales can offer equally myriad ways to understand how living with Covid-19 is affecting our potential as humans and to be human.
