Rawlab traces how algorithmic systems reduce expression to behavioural data, contributing to the disembodiment and abstraction of the self. Positioning the face not as a site of intimacy, but as a contested field of extraction and interpretation. Emotion is no longer expressive, but instead predictable. Visitors become tokens in a living dataset, confronted not with their reflection, but with the way machines parse and classify them—an emotional taxonomy mirroring their category’s composite.